title: [Consumption of benzodiazepines in a university hospital center].
abstract: Benzodiazepine consumption has been studied in an inpatient population of a hospitalo-universitary center. The different user wards were classified by their cost or the importance of their benzodiazepine use. In a second step, the authors studied the prescription in the 6 most consumer medical wards. The most prescribed benzodiazepines were lorazepam and dipotassium clorazepate (27 and 23% respectively). In these six wards, on the day of the study, 48% of the 227 inpatients were taking benzodiazepines. Fourteen out of them were taking more than one of these drugs. In 80% of the cases, the patient was asking for the prescription. Out of the 110 inpatients found to have taken a benzodiazepine on the day of the study, 74 had already regularly used it during the years before hospital admission, mainly women (64%) and old people. Finally, out of the 227 inpatients studied, the hospitalization is a possible inducer of the benzodiazepine intake and dependence in 16% of the patients. The results are discussed against the background of other studies concerning benzodiazepine consumption.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Clinique, C.H.U., Besançon.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vandel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nezelof
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bonin
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Mesnage
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bertschy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jacquet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bizouard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000188:drug therapy*; D001569:Benzodiazepines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004363:Drug Utilization; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D001569:Benzodiazepines
vernacular_title: Consommation de benzodiazépines dans un centre hospitalo-universitaire.