No End in Sight: Benzodiazepine Use in Older Adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To establish the rate of new and continuation of benzodiazepine use in older adults seen by nonpsychiatrist physicians and to identify subpopulations at risk of new and continuation benzodiazepine use.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis.

Setting

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (2007-10).

Participants

Adults visiting office-based nonpsychiatrist physicians (n = 98,818) who were prescribed a benzodiazepine (new or continuation).

Measurements

Percentage of benzodiazepine visits of all outpatient encounters according to patient age and corresponding annual visit rate per 1,000 population. Analysis was then limited to adults aged 65 and older, demographic, clinical, and visits characteristics were used to compare visits of benzodiazepine users

SUBMITTER: Maust DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5173408 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature