Table 2.
Percentage of patients with a first hypnotic drug prescription by medical department according to BZD and non-BZD drugs
| Drug class/drug | Patients, n | Patients with a first hypnotic drug prescription by medical department, %a | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal medicine | General surgery | Orthopaedic surgery | Urology | Neurosurgery | Cardiovascular | Gastroenterology | Gynaecology | Hepatology | Neurology | Cardiology | Otolaryngology | Psychiatry | ||
| BZDs | 155,861 | 24.1 | 12.2 | 11.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| Brotizolam | 63,200 | 19.1 | 14.6 | 14.2 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 5.4 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| Etizolam | 39,181 | 31.1 | 5.5 | 9.4 | 2.6 | 9.1 | 5.4 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
| Flunitrazepam | 20,083 | 36.3 | 16.7 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 17.0 | 0.8 | 9.3 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.9 |
| Rilmazafone | 19,542 | 15.0 | 14.9 | 18.0 | 8.5 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.3 |
| Triazolam | 7839 | 22.2 | 11.4 | 14.1 | 3.7 | 6.6 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 5.5 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 1.8 |
| Nitrazepam | 2693 | 17.8 | 9.2 | 6.3 | 2.4 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 18.9 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 11.0 |
| Lormetazepam | 1524 | 31.8 | 6.6 | 9.1 | 15.8 | 8.2 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 8.7 |
| Estazolam | 1354 | 25.6 | 6.2 | 11.1 | 7.9 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 3.8 |
| Quazepam | 424 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 5.0 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 32.5 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 4.5 |
| Nimetazepam | 11 | 36.4 | 0.0 | 27.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Flurazepam | 7 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 57.1 |
| Haloxazolam | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| Non-BZDs | 96,121 | 22.7 | 11.9 | 11.5 | 6.2 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 |
| Zolpidem | 72,354 | 22.8 | 11.8 | 11.2 | 6.1 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 1.4 |
| Zopiclone | 17,713 | 21.7 | 13.0 | 13.9 | 8.0 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 2.2 |
| Eszopiclone | 6054 | 25.3 | 9.4 | 8.2 | 1.8 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 7.5 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 8.9 |
BZD benzodiazepine
aOnly medical departments issuing at least 2% of prescriptions are shown