Current status of hypnotic prescribing habits in the United States.
Prescription data suggests that outside of primary care physicians, psychiatrists represent the second largest prescriber of sleep aids, accounting for 11 percent of total prescriptions. Use of individual agents do not differ between psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and neurologists.
Ms. Cascade is Vice President, Strategic Research and Safety, Quintiles Inc., Falls Church, Virginia.
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