Table 1. The main components of the multifaceted educational intervention.

SETTING	bi-annual small group meetings (each lasting 3–4 hours) with a Primary Care Group (PCG)
TOOLS	ad hoc prepared information packages (pharmacists/referent GPs receive one three-day/half aday courses on the contents of that material); presentation and discussion of real life clinicalscenarios; prescribing reports for each PCG comparing with local averages
METHODS	educational outreach visits (small group meetings); audit & feedback; problem-based learning:“we present to you the available evidence and some context, you decide”
ACTORS	a pharmacist acts as facilitator, presenting the evidence-based information packages andcommenting on drug utilization data of PCG; a general practitioner acts as referent peerpresenting real life clinical scenarios to be discussed in the light of available evidence