Over a 5-year period in the 1980s, there was a significant shift in prescribing patterns for the elderly, moving away from long-acting benzodiazepines and barbiturates toward short-acting hypnotics.
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May indicate early risk awareness with long-acting hypnotics in elderly; leaves open whether trends persist in modern practice.
Stewart et al. (1989) studied this question.
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