European journal of clinical pharmacology
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Eur. J. Clin. Pharmacol. · Nov 2014
Dispensing of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-related drugs to pregnant women: a population-based cohort study.
The study aimed to describe the dispensing of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-related drugs (z-hypnotics) to pregnant women and to study the characteristics of these women and the extent of co-medication. ⋯ The use of benzodiazepines and z-hypnotic drugs during pregnancy was not very prevalent in Norway. However, our findings imply that there is a substantial number of pregnancies where these drugs are dispensed often and/or in large quantities and where co-medication occurred.