Patterns of sleep-related medications prescribed to elderly outpatients with insomnia in Taiwan

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 957-965

  Huang, Weng Foung ^a   Lai, I Ching ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YULI VETERANS HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BROMAZEPAM; BUSPIRONE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CHLORMEZANONE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CLORAZEPATE DIPOTASSIUM; CLOXAZOLAM; DIAZEPAM; ESTAZOLAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLURAZEPAM; HYDROXYZINE; HYDROXYZINE EMBONATE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; LORAZEPAM; LORMETAZEPAM; MEDAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NITRAZEPAM; TRAZODONE; TRIAZOLAM; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZOLPIDEM; ZOPICLONE;

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; DRUG COST; DRUG PACKAGING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SIDE EFFECT; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ANXIETY; BENZODIAZEPINES; DEPRESSION; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TAIWAN;

EID: 28544432831     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 1170229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200522110-00005     Document Type: Article

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