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“Eighty-six residents (38%) reported using sedative agents to sleep following shift work with the most common agents being anti-histamines (31%), nonbenzodiazepine hypnotics such as zolpidem (14%), melatonin (10%), and benzodiazepines (9%).”
The American journal of emergency medicine • 2011 | View Paper
“More patients in the melatonin group (20 versus six patients in the chloral hydrate group) required a second dose of sedative for sleep induction (chi square test, P value=0.004).”