Background Overall prescribing of benzodiazepines and z-hypnotics (B&Zs) has slowly
reduced over the past 20 years. However, long-term prescribing still occurs, particularly …

Rationale Hypnotics are widely used to treat insomnia but adverse effects of different
hypnotics, especially benzodiazepine receptor agonists, are getting more attention lately …

Background Psychotropic medicine utilization has increased worldwide among older people
(aged 65 years or older), in relation to utilization of other medicines. Objective The aim of …

Background: Benzodiazepine and z-hypnotic prescribing has slowly decreased over the
past 20 years, however long-term chronic prescribing still occurs and is at odds with …

Abstract Objective The New Zealand National Poisons Centre has, over a number of years,
developed an electronic poisons information database. In 2002, this was released as …

Impaired dexterity is a major psychomotor deficit reported in patients with schizophrenia. In
the present study, the Purdue pegboard test was used to compare the manual dexterity in …

Aim To examine psychotropic drug utilisation in older people in N ew Z ealand by age, sex,
health board domicile and deprivation status. Methods A repeated cross‐sectional analysis …

Objective To assess the effects of hypnotics on prefrontal cortex activity in healthy subjects
using near‐infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in a double‐blind, placebo‐controlled crossover …

Off-label prescribing is also common among cardiac medications (antianginals,
antiarrhythmics, and anticoagulants), anticonvulsants and antiasthmatics. 5 It is well …