Awareness and use of benzodiazepines in healthy volunteers and ambulatory patients visiting a tertiary care hospital: A cross sectional survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Raoof, Mustafa ^a   Nawaz, Haq ^a   Nusrat, Rabeeya ^a   Pabaney, Aqueel Hussain ^a   Randhawa, Ali Raza ^a   Rehman, Rabeea ^a   Rizvi, Nida Butool ^a   Naqvi, Haider ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BROMAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH VISITOR; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAKISTAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRESCRIPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VOLUNTEER; AWARENESS; HOSPITAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; AWARENESS; BENZODIAZEPINES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 46349087808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001804     Document Type: Article

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