Evaluation of prescribing patterns of switching to and add-on lemborexant in patients treated with hypnotic medication: a nationwide claims database study in Japan
The proportion of successful switching was higher in patients who switched to lemborexant than in those who added lemborexant as a concomitant treatment. The lower success proportion in the add-on cohort might be related to clinically more severe insomnia, and/or a concomitant prescription of benzodiazepine or non-benzodiazepine, from which discontinuation may be challenging.
Authors
- Kayoko Mizuno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6084-9845)
- Kazuo Mishima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1182-1181)
- Koji Kawakami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-4071)
- Takehiro Taninaga
- Sachiko Tanaka‐Mizuno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0671-5376)
- Margaret Moline (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-2167)
- Yukinori Sakata
- Mika Ishii
- Satomi Yoshida (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3411-9427)
- Kenichi Fujimoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8907-4628)
- Naoki Kubota (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1292-0897)
- Toshiki Fukasawa
Institutions
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- Kobe Pharmaceutical University (JP)
- Akita University (JP)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Eisai (United States) (US)
- Eisai (Japan) (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
- Published
- 2024-08-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14656566.2024.2392018
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Sleep and related disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.52