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ArticleLancet (London, England)2021

Benzodiazepines for the long-term treatment of anxiety disorders?

Prashant Tibrewal, Jeffrey C L Looi, Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A 21-year Comparative Study of Prescriptions of Benzodiazepines and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Related Drugs in a Japanese University Hospital.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Prashant TibrewalDiscipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Cramond Clinic, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, SA 5011, Australia. Electronic address: prashant.tibrewal@sa.gov.au.
Jeffrey C L LooiConsortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Stephen AllisonCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Tarun BastiampillaiDepartment of Psychiatry, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Anxiety AgentsBenzodiazepinesAnxiety DisordersHumansLong-Term CareAnti-Anxiety AgentsBenzodiazepines

Identifiers

PMID34246344

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