Table 2. Prescribers Accounting for Prescriptions During Periods of Opioid-Benzodiazepine Overlap.
| With multiple prescribers | With 1 prescriber | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prescriber accounting for active opioid prescriptionsa | Person-days, No. (%) (n = 19 895 457) | Prescriber accounting for active benzodiazepine prescriptions | Person-days, No. (%) (n = 19 895 457) | Prescriber accounting for overlapping prescriptions | Person-days, No. (%) (n = 33 093 859) |
| Pain medicine physician | 5 917 201 (29.7) | Family medicine physician | 5 706 768 (28.7) | Family medicine physician | 13 945 036 (42.1) |
| Internal medicine physician | 765 569 (18.9) | Internal medicine physician | 5 257 307 (26.4) | Internal medicine physician | 11 045 193 (33.4) |
| Family medicine physician | 3 041 792 (15.3) | Psychiatrist | 4 350 732 (21.9) | Nurse practitioner | 2 009 865 (6.1) |
| Nurse practitioner | 2 015 089 (10.1) | Nurse practitioner | 2 228 575 (11.2) | Pain medicine physician | 1 168 566 (3.5) |
| Physical medicine and rehabilitation physician | 1 450 180 (7.3) | Physician assistant | 756 189 (3.8) | Physician assistant | 947 124 (2.9) |
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