What is the best hypnotic for use in the elderly?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 976-978

  Scott, Mollie Ashe ^a,b   Stigleman, Sue ^a  

^a Mt Area Health Education Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORAL HYDRATE; MELATONIN; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALERIAN; ZALEPLON; ZOLPIDEM; ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; AGED; ALERTNESS; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERANCE; ELDERLY CARE; EXCITABILITY; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MEMORY DISORDER; MYALGIA; NIGHTMARE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIAPISM; REBOUND; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; SOMNOLENCE; UNEASINESS; URINE RETENTION; VERTIGO; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0347480549     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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