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What is Chloral Hydrate?

Chloral Hydrate is a nonbenzodiazepine drug used for short-term sedative and hypnotic effects; as a sedative/hypnotic for diagnostic procedures; and a sedative prior to EEG evaluations.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Insomnia 6 2 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
Other 1 0
Early morning wakefulness 1 0
Treat side effects of another treatment 1 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 2
None
 0

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Chloral Hydrate

Bad taste in mouth 2

Reported Dosages

  2 500mg as needed 2other as needed 500mg as needed 2 tps. daily 1,000 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Chloral Hydrate (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 3   Did not seem to work: 60%
Doctor's advice 2   Doctor's advice: 40%
Other 2   Other: 40%

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Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Chloral Hydrate

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0

Stopped Taking Chloral Hydrate

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Chloral Hydrate

Always
 1 50%
Usually
 1 50%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Chloral Hydrate

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 2 100%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Chloral Hydrate

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 100%

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Report created on May 26, 2012.