Long-term benzodiazepine and Z-drugs: are we committing the denominator fallacy?

Br J Gen Pract. 2017 Oct;67(663):448. doi: 10.3399/bjgp17X692777.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Benzodiazepines / therapeutic use*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Humans
  • Hypnotics and Sedatives / therapeutic use*
  • Inappropriate Prescribing / prevention & control
  • Medical Overuse / statistics & numerical data
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*
  • Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / epidemiology
  • Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Substance-Related Disorders / prevention & control
  • United Kingdom / epidemiology

Substances

  • Hypnotics and Sedatives
  • Benzodiazepines