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Benzodiazepines and Hip Fractures
- Gerson T. Lesser, MD
- From Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Jewish Home and Hospital, New York, NY 10029.
TO THE EDITOR:
The use of hypnotics in general, and benzodiazepines in particular, has been largely proscribed in geriatric teaching and practice for some years. Wagner and coworkers (1) have served us well by showing definitively that an intervention effecting major reduction of benzodiazepine use in a large, vulnerable population failed to lower the incidence of hip fractures. The authors sensibly conclude that discrepancies between their observations and those of earlier reports are probably explained by unmeasured confounders. In …
