Prescription of Benzodiazepines in a London Teaching Hospital
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- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Vol. 83 (5) , 306-307
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014107689008300509
Abstract
A study of the extent of hospital inpatient prescribing of benzodiazepines and their continuation at discharge was carried out on all patients admitted to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, during a 7-day period. A large majority (73.6%) were not prescribed benzodiazepines at any time. No discharge prescriptions for these drugs were initiated in hospital. The data do not suggest that hospital prescribing of benzodiazepines is contributing to community prescribing.Keywords
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