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Russell Pearson

MBBS, FRACGP, is Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, and a general practitioner, New South Wales

A circle of silence: The attitudes of patients older than 65 years of age to ceasing long-term sleeping tablets

Benzodiazepines are a widely prescribed class of medication, estimated to be used by 15.7% of the Australian population older than 65 years of age.1 They are indicated for short-term management of...



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