Stopped: The study was stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic restricting access to primary healthcare clinics.
Benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-like hypnotics (z-drugs) are prevalent and addictive narcotics. Guidelines recommend restricted prescription of these drugs for anxiety and insomnia. The majority of benzodiazepine prescriptions are written for these disorders by physicians (GPs) in primary health care. Primary health care is thus an important arena for efforts to reduce access to benzodiazepines in order to lower the number of new users and users at risk of dependency. This trial evaluates whether a brief educational intervention in primary health care followed by 12 months of feedback on prescription data changes the prescription of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-like hypnotics.
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Prescriptions of benzodiazepines and benzodizepine-like hypnotics
Timeframe: 12 months