Table 2.

Proportion of patients who did not interrupt their benzodiazepine treatment 12 weeks after its initiation (France, 2011-2012)

	2011		2012		p
	N = 41,393		N = 41,980
	Discontinuing patients	Continuing patients	Discontinuing patients	Continuing patients
	n , %	n , %	n , %	n , %
All patients	33,869; 81.82	7,524; 18.18	34,018; 81.03	7,962; 18.97	0.030
Patients older than 65 years	7,180; 72.57	2,714; 27.43	7,798; 71.94	3,041; 28.06	0.30