Figures & data
Textbox 1. Variables included from GPs electronic medical records (EMRs) and from The NorwegianPrescription database (NorPD).
Table 1. Characteristics of included physicians (n = 148) and their practices.
Table 2. Prescriptions of benzodiazepines, Z-hypnotics or opioid analgesics for elderly patients during direct (DC) and indirect (IC) GP-patient contacts by physician-, practice- and patient characteristics. Quintiles (Q1–Q5) are by number of GPs.
Table 3. Prescriptions of benzodiazepines (bzd), Z-hypnotics or opioid analgesics for elderly patients during direct and indirect GP-patient contacts by package size issued.
Table 4. Multilevel logistic regression analysis showing factors independently associated with prescribing benzodiazepines, Z-hypnotics and opioid analgesics for elderly patients during indirect GP-patient contacts, with GPs as the cluster Level. Dependent variable: 0 = direct contacts (n = 8346), 1 = indirect contacts (n = 14,165).