ArticlePsychiatry investigation2018
A Sleep Education and Hypnotics Reduction Program for Hospitalized Patients at a General Hospital.
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- The Influence of Hospitalization and Nursing Interventions on Inpatients' Sleep Quality: A Multicenter Observational Study.Worldviews on evidence-based nursing · 2026Observational
- Is the Current Lights-Off Time in General Hospitals Too Early, Given People's Usual Bedtimes?Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- Reducing the use of sleep-inducing drugs during hospitalisation by a multi-faceted intervention: a pilot study.European journal of hospital pharmacy : science and practice · 2024Article
- Environmental scan of current strategies to decrease sedative-hypnotic drug use and promote sleep in hospital patients.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2023Review
- Reducing Sedative-Hypnotics Among Hospitalized Patients: a Multi-centered Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- The Effect of a Sleep Education and Hypnotics Reduction Program on Hypnotics Prescription Rate for the Hospitalized Patients with Cancer at a General Hospital.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Point Prevalence Survey of Benzodiazepine and Sedative-Hypnotic Drug Use in Hospitalized Adult Patients.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveWe applied a program of sleep education and hypnotics reduction for inpatients (the i-sleep program). This study explored whether the i-sleep program is effective for reducing the prescription rate of sleeping pills to inpatients in a general hospital.
methodsWe estimated the proportion of inpatients prescribed hypnotics at admission to and discharge from the hospital, excluding pediatric care units, before (2014) and after (2015) the program. In addition, we estimated the proportion of inpatients prescribed sleeping pills among all inpatients on the first day of each month of 2014 and 2015.
resultsThe proportion of inpatients prescribed hypnotics as discharge medication among inpatients who had been prescribed them at the time of admission decreased significantly, from 57.0% to 46.8%, after the i-sleep program (RR=0.82, 95% CI: 0.79-0.86). The proportion of inpatients newly prescribed sleeping pills after admission to the hospital did not significantly decrease (1.97% to 2.00%; RR=1.01, 95% CI: 0.96-1.07). The mean prescription rate of sleeping pills per day was 8.18% in 2014 and 7.78% in 2015.
conclusionThe i-sleep program reduced the proportion of inpatients who continued to take sleeping pills from admission until discharge, although it did't reduce the prescription rate per day.
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