The influence of prescriber and patient gender on the prescription of benzodiazepines: results from the Florida Medicaid Dataset.
Leanna M W LuiYena LeeOrly LipsitzNelson B RodriguesHartej GillJifeng MaLinas WilkialisJocelyn K TamuraAshley SiegelDavid Chen-LiJoshua D RosenblatRodrigo B MansurMarie A McPhersonRoger S McIntyrePublished in: CNS spectrums (2021)
Male prescribers are more likely to prescribe BZDs, and male patients are more likely to receive BZDs. Further studies are required to characterize factors that influence this gender-by-gender interaction.