Area-wide multi-strategic benzodiazepine reduction (rural South Australia)
A participatory partnership of consumers, GPs, the Division of General Practice, a government department, aged-care facilities and local media promoting non-drug management of insomnia under Australia's Quality Use of Medicines policy.
- Years
- 1999–2001
- Country
- Australia
- Topic
- Low value carePatient safetySleep
- Asks people to
- Stop
- Strategy
- Multi level community
- Channel
- Clinical settingPrintRadio
- Audience
- CliniciansGeneral publicrural residents, GPs, aged-care staff
Evidence
Quasi-experimentalPositive
Benzodiazepine dispensing fell 19% two years on vs 6% nationally; antidepressant dispensing rose 33% vs 28% nationally (no clear substitution).
Sponsor (who paid)
- Local Division of General Practice and South Australian government partners State local government
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Achieving a sustained reduction in benzodiazepine use through implementation of an area-wide multi-strategic approach evaluation · 2005 · DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2710.2005.00674.x · PMID 16164487
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Years from the before (1998/99) and after (2000/01) data periods.
Record cases/au-rural-sa-benzodiazepine-reduction.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign