Deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists for insomnia in older adults

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Pharmacy, Louvain Drug Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels 1200, Belgium.
² Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Institute of Primary Health Care, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Third Department of Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine Centre, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Fundació Salut i Envelliment, Universitat Autōnoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Clinical Pharmacy, Louvain Drug Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels 1200, Belgium; CHU UCL Namur, Pharmacy Department, Yvoir, Belgium. Electronic address: anne.spinewine@uclouvain.be.

Comment

Antoine Christiaens et al. Lancet. 2023.

. 2023 Oct 21;402(10411):1421-1422.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01562-3.

¹ Clinical Pharmacy, Louvain Drug Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels 1200, Belgium.
² Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Institute of Primary Health Care, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Third Department of Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine Centre, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Fundació Salut i Envelliment, Universitat Autōnoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Clinical Pharmacy, Louvain Drug Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels 1200, Belgium; CHU UCL Namur, Pharmacy Department, Yvoir, Belgium. Electronic address: anne.spinewine@uclouvain.be.

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Deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists for insomnia in older adults - Authors' reply.
Cheung JMY, Scott H, Muench A, Riemann D, Teel J, Thase M, Perlis M. Cheung JMY, et al. Lancet. 2023 Oct 21;402(10411):1422. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01561-1. Lancet. 2023. PMID: 37865469 No abstract available.

Insomnia.
Perlis ML, Posner D, Riemann D, Bastien CH, Teel J, Thase M. Perlis ML, et al. Lancet. 2022 Sep 24;400(10357):1047-1060. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00879-0. Epub 2022 Sep 14. Lancet. 2022. PMID: 36115372 Review.