ArticleWiener klinische Wochenschrift2010
Prescription of benzodiazepines in Slovenian family medicine: a qualitative study.
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- Health care professionals' attitudes towards deprescribing in older patients with limited life expectancy: A systematic review.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2019Pooled it
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- General practitioners' experiences and perceptions of benzodiazepine prescribing: systematic review and meta-synthesis.BMC family practice · 2013Pooled it
- Should We Just Prescribe? Ethical Considerations When Using Antidepressants and Benzodiazepines For Emotional Distress.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2025Article
- Approaches to panic attack symptoms in cardiology outpatients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Attitudes and psychotropic preferences of primary care providers in the management of mental disorders: a web-based survey.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- The Barriers and Facilitators of Different Stakeholders When Deprescribing Benzodiazepine Receptor Agonists in Older Patients-A Systematic Review.Metabolites · 2021Review
- Benzodiazepine usage and patient preference for alternative therapies: A descriptive study.Health science reports · 2019Article
- Patients' and clinicians' experiences and perceptions of the primary care management of insomnia: qualitative study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015Article
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Abstract
introductionPrevious quantitative research showed large variations in prescribing volume and prescribing patterns of benzodiazepines among Slovenian family physicians. We performed a qualitative interview study to investigate how high-prescribing family physicians explain their own prescription.
methodsFive family physicians with benzodiazepine prescriptions in volumes larger than 4000 defined daily doses per month and five who prescribed volumes smaller than 2000 defined daily doses per month, selected randomly from the representative sample of Slovenian family physicians, were interviewed. Physicians' self-explanations about their daily decisions regarding benzodiazepine prescribing, patients' and practice characteristics and their attitudes towards patients were analysed.
resultsFamily physicians were reporting about patients' needs and their demands, co-morbidity of older patients, previous good experience with benzodiazepines, concerns about decreasing dosage or discontinuation of benzodiazepines, high workload and time constraints, limited access to mental health workers and insufficient education and training.
conclusionFamily physicians consider the task of initiating, withdrawing or reducing benzodiazepines as demanding due to complexity of psychosocial problems, co-morbidity, workload, time-consumingness, need to master counselling skills, demands of their patients, particularly the long-term ones and due to low access to mental health services. The majority of family physicians agreed with restrictions in their prescription based on the guidelines.
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