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Prescription pattern and prevalence of benzodiazepine use among elderly patients

Providing quality long-term care for the elderly represents a major challenge for every health system, and improvement in this field can only be achieved through continuous monitoring and evaluation of BZD utilization. With an increasing ageing population in Croatia, there is a growing need for improvement of current BZD guidelines, development of health strategies focused on elderly and better implementation of educational programmes that emphasize the importance of rational use of medications (especially psychotropic drugs) in order to minimize the use of BZDs among older people.

benzodiazepine ; elderly ; Croatia ; prescription

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