Table 3.

Numbers (percentages) of patients whose repeat prescriptions were changed during the study. Some patients had more than one change

Type of change	Intervention (n=581)	Control (n=550)	Total (n=1131)
New drug started	265 (46)	270 (49)	535 (47)
Drug stopped	239 (41)	180 (33)	419 (37)
Switched drug	119 (20)	93 (17)	212 (19)
Dose changed	98 (17)	61 (11)	159 (14)
Change to generic	64 (11)	37 (7)	101 (9)
Formulation changed	17 (3)	12 (2)	29 (3)
Frequency changed	6 (1)	0	6 (1)
Any of above	438 (75)	397 (72)	835 (74)