Use of night‐time benzodiazepines in an elderly inpatient population

Aim: To examine benzodiazepine prescribing for sleep induction in an elderly medical inpatient population to determine if hospital prescribing may have encouraged benzodiazepine use following discharge. Secondary objectives included assessment of quality of sleep in hospital compared with home and monitoring for possible benzodiazepine side‐effects.

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