Patient Characteristics and Practice Variation Associated With New Community Prescription of Benzodiazepine and z-Drug Hypnotics After Critical Illness: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink

Author
E. Mansi
C. Rentsch
R. Bourne
B. Guthrie
N. Lone
Keywords
Humans
Male
*Benzodiazepines/administration & dosage/adverse effects/therapeutic use
Retrospective Studies
Female
*Critical Illness
Middle Aged
Aged
*Hypnotics and Sedatives/administration & dosage/adverse effects/therapeutic use
United Kingdom/epidemiology
*Practice Patterns, Physicians'/statistics & numerical data
Adult
Databases, Factual
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders/drug therapy/epidemiology
Aged, 80 and over
Drug Prescriptions/statistics & numerical data
Cohort Studies
Survivors/statistics & numerical data
benzodiazepines
critical care
critical illness
Electronic Health Records
hypnotics and sedatives
postintensive care syndrome
Prescriptions
Year of Publication
2024
Journal
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Volume
33
Number of Pages
e70056
ISBN Number
1053-8569 (Print)
1053-8569
Accession Number
39603606
DOI
10.1002/pds.70056