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Predicting benzodiazepine prescriptions: A proof-of-concept machine learning approach
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 IntroductionBenzodiazepines are the most commonly prescribed psychotropic medications, but they may place users at risk of serious adverse effects. Developing a method to predict benzodiazepine prescriptions could assist in prevention efforts.MethodsThe ...
Kerry L. Kinney +11 more
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Increasing Benzodiazepine Prescriptions and Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1996-2013.
American Journal of Public Health, 2016 OBJECTIVES To describe trends in benzodiazepine prescriptions and overdose mortality involving benzodiazepines among US adults. METHODS We examined data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and multiple-cause-of-death data from the Centers for ...
M. Bachhuber +3 more
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BMC Family Practice, 2009 Background Benzodiazepines are frequently prescribed to elderly patients' despite concerns about adverse effects leading to injurious falls. Previous studies have not investigated the extent to which patients with pre-existing risk factors for falls are ...
Sylvestre Marie-Pierre +4 more
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Treatment strategy for insomnia disorder: Japanese expert consensus
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 PurposeThere is a lack of evidence regarding answers for clinical questions about treating insomnia disorder. This study aimed to answer the following clinical questions: (1) how to use each hypnotic and non-pharmacological treatment differently ...
Yoshikazu Takaesu +24 more
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Treatment of pediatric convulsive status epilepticus
Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 Status epilepticus is one of the most common life-threatening neurological emergencies in childhood with the highest incidence in the first 5 years of life and high mortality and morbidity rates.
Lena-Luise Becker +11 more
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Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2023 Background Catatonia is a syndrome that may present with stupor, immobility, and postural retention, and appears in various primary disorders including schizophrenia, depressive disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Minako Hagikura, Toshiya Inada
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JAMA Network Open, 2018 Key Points Question How does the risk of overdose change with the number of days with concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use? Findings In this cohort study of US Medicare data, the overdose risk associated with concurrent benzodiazepine use changed ...
I. Hernandez +3 more
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Addiction of High Dose of Benzodiazepine: Verona Detox Approach With Flumazenil
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 IntroductionSince the 1990s there has been evidence of the significant role Flumazenil (FLU) has in benzodiazepines (BZD) detoxes. The Verona Detox approach has been developed for high dose BZD and Z-drug detoxification via continuous subcutaneous ...
Rebecca Casari +6 more
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Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effect of Polysubstance Usage on Drug Overdose from Large-Scale Electronic Health Record [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Drug overdose has become a public health crisis in the United States with devastating consequences. However, most of the drug overdose incidences are the consequence of recitative polysubstance usage over a defined period of time which can be happened by either the intentional usage of required drug with other drugs or by accident. Thus, predicting the
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British medical journal, 2015 Objective To study the association between benzodiazepine prescribing patterns including dose, type, and dosing schedule and the risk of death from drug overdose among US veterans receiving opioid analgesics. Design Case-cohort study.
Tae Woo Park +4 more
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