An assessment of quality of sleep and the use drugs with sedating properties in hospitalized adult patients

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Frighetto, Luciana ^a   Marra, Carlo ^a   Bandali, Shakeel ^a   Wilbur, Kerry ^a   Naumann, Terryn ^a   Jewesson, Peter ^a,b  

^a VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLONAZEPAM; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; LORAZEPAM; LOXAPINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OXAZEPAM; TEMAZEPAM; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ZOPICLONE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL SERVICE; PAIN; PRESCRIPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP TIME; SUPPLEMENTATION; UNITED STATES; AGED; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 4243085698     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-17     Document Type: Article

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