Characteristics and Trends in Hypnotics Consumption in the Largest Health Care System in Israel

Table 8

Change in the amount of sleep medications (dosage) consumption in patients consuming hypnotics for more than 6 months, according to medication group type (2010).

Medication group type	Change in dosage
	Decrease	No change	Increase
Benzodiazepines	5.6%	85.8%	8.6%
Antidepressant	7.8%	79.2%	13.1%
Z drugs	9.4%	77.0%	13.6%