Table 1.

Patient demographics

Total = 22,624	Number of patients (percentage)
Male; mean age in years (standard deviation)	13,035 (57.6%); 72.19 (± 12.2)
Female; mean age in years (standard deviation)	9589 (42.4%); 74.7 (± 12.9)
Care home resident	517 (2.3%)
Not care home resident	21,650 (95.7%)
Residential status unknown	457 (2%)
Multi-compartment compliance aid used	2420 (10.7%)
Anticoagulant prescribed
Acenocoumarol	75 (0.3%)
Apixaban	5493 (24.3%)
Dabigatran	728 (3.2%)
Edoxaban	281 (1.2%)
Phenindione	2 (0.01%)
Rivaroxaban	5243 (23.2%)
Warfarin	10,802 (47.7%)

Antiplatelet agent co-prescribed	Total = 1340 (5.9%)
Aspirin	898 (4%)
Clopidogrel	400 (1.8%)
Dipyridamole	6 (0.04%)
Ticragrelor	2
Aspirin and clopidogrel	31 (0.13%)
Aspirin and ticragrelor	1
Method of data collection (a patient not contacted)
Conversation with the patient in the pharmacy	12,944 (57.2%)
Conversation with the patient by telephone	4046 (17.9%)
Patient’s representative in pharmacya	2308 (10.2%)
Medicine delivered by pharmacya	3326 (14.7%)