Benzodiazepine prescription and length of hospital stay at a Japanese university hospital
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Benzodiazepine prescription and length of hospital stay at a Japanese university hospital
BACKGROUND The relationship between bed days and benzodiazepine prescription (BDZ) in Western countries is inconclusive, and no hospital-based report has documented this phenomenon in Japan. This study was done to assess the association between bed days and BDZ in a Japanese hospital. METHODS 21,489 adult patients (55.1% men, mean age 59.9 years old) hospitalized between April, 2005 and Decem...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioPsychoSocial Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1751-0759
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-3-10