Benzodiazepines are frequently prescribed on an ongoing basis to individuals with
depression, mainly to alleviate anxiety or insomnia, despite current guideline …

Abstract Clinical Practice Guidelines are succinct evidence-based recommendations and in
psychiatry, exist to advise on psychotropic prescribing to effectively treat mental health …

PURPOSE: No prospective followup study to date to our knowledge has evaluated the
relationship between stone disease and the subsequent risk of diabetes mellitus. In this …

Background Depression is a common mental health disorder for which clinical practice
guidelines have been developed. Prior systematic reviews have identified complex …

Background Current treatment guidelines emphasize the limited role of benzodiazepines in
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), mainly due to the absence of long-term data, risk of …

Introduction To examine the prevalence rates and correlates of dependence on, misuse of,
and beliefs regarding use of hypnotics in elderly psychiatric patients with long‐term use of …

Abstract Background and Objective Clinical guidelines recommend monotherapy with
antidepressants for the treatment of major depression. This study examined prescription …

Aims A review of the published work on treatments for major depressive disorder suggests
that there is an alarming gap between guideline recommendations and actual clinical …

The majority of pharmacoepidemiological data resources are based on data generated in
primary health care. Although inpatient data resources have existed since the 1960s …

Background In several countries, prevalence studies demonstrate that chronic use of BZD in
the elderly population is very high. This scenario has reached pandemic proportions for …