Table 2 Proportion of patients who did not interrupt their benzodiazepine treatment 12 weeks after its initiation (France, 2011-2012)
From: Did the new French pay-for-performance system modify benzodiazepine prescribing practices?
2011 | 2012 | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 41,393 | N = 41,980 | ||||
Discontinuing patients | Continuing patients | Discontinuing patients | Continuing patients | ||
n, % | n, % | n, % | n, % | ||
All patients | 33,869; 81.82 | 7,524; 18.18 | 34,018; 81.03 | 7,962; 18.97 | 0.030 |
Patients older than 65 years | 7,180; 72.57 | 2,714; 27.43 | 7,798; 71.94 | 3,041; 28.06 | 0.30 |