Table 3.

Initiation of bisphosphonates or denosumab in patients with recorded diagnoses of osteoporosis and no record of bisphosphonate or denosumab in pre-washout period 2013–17

	Number of patients (n = 18,629)	%
Prescribed bisphosphonate but not denosumab	3502	18.8%
Prescribed denosumab but not bisphosphonate	6407	34.4%
Prescribed both bisphosphonate and denosumab	2182	11.7%
Prescribed bisphosphonate first	1800	9.7%
Prescribed denosumab first	134	0.7%
Prescribed bisphosphonate and denosumab on the same day	248	1.3%