Table 1.
Characteristics of the initial prescriptions of statins issued in Scania, Sweden, between March 2004 and March 2006, by Health Care District and specifying prescription of simvastatin (i.e., recommended drug).
| Whole Scania | North-West | North-East | Central | South-West | South-East | |||||||
| All | Simvastatin | All | Simvastatin | All | Simvastatin | All | Simvastatin | All | Simvastatin | All | Simvastatin | |
| Number of prescriptions (Public HCCs) | 110,827 | 68,372 (62%) | 27,562 | 17,138 (62%) | 19,145 | 12,978 (68%) | 27,509 | 15,932 (58%) | 28,373 | 16,264 (57%) | 8,328 | 6,060 (74%) |
| Number of prescriptions (Private HCCs) | 72,082 | 36,256 (50%) | 20,270 | 9,958 (53%) | 7,801 | 4,656 (64%) | 7,922 | 4,342 (58%) | 34,024 | 13,224 (42%) | 7,272 | 4,076 (60%) |
| Men Public/private | 56/55 | 55/55 | 53/55 | 53/55 | 55/55 | 55/56 | 58/52 | 57/52 | 56/55 | 56/55 | 57/55 | 57/54 |
| Mean age in years (Public/private) | 67/66 | 67/65 | 67/67 | 67/66 | 68/68 | 67/68 | 67/65 | 67/65 | 66/66 | 66/66 | 68/67 | 68/67 |
| Number of HCAs (Public/private) | 14/5 | 3/1 | 3/1 | 3/1 | 3/1 | 2/1 | ||||||
| Number of HCCs (Public/private) | 136/115 | 29/28 | 25/13 | 36/18 | 39/41 | 7/15 | ||||||
| Percentage of prescriptions from HCCs that participated in information campaign (Public/private) | 82/22 | 82/28 | 98/24 | 97/27 | 97/80 | 97/80 | 100/47 | 100/50 | 33/0 | 31/0 | 100/34 | 100/36 |
| Percentage of prescriptions from HCCs with own budget administration (Public) | 71 | 71 | 83 | 81 | 87 | 86 | 91 | 89 | 38 | 42 | 35 | 36 |
| Percentage of prescriptions from specialist physician (Public/private) | 34/37 | 37/34 | 29/38 | 32/33 | 32/4 | 35/2 | 35/41 | 37/43 | 38/48 | 42/46 | 35/15 | 36/20 |
| DDD/inhabitants/day for statins | ||||||||||||
| DDD/inhabitants/day, 2004 | 131 | 153 | 127 | 110 | 132 | 129 | ||||||
| DDD/inhabitants/day, 2005 | 152 | 180 | 147 | 126 | 152 | 154 | ||||||
| DDD/inhabitants/day, 2006 | 177 | 207 | 171 | 147 | 178 | 186 | ||||||
HCC = outpatient health care centre.