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Table 3 Proportion of prescriptions in each category accounted for by the newly approved medications, 2011

From: New chronic disease medication prescribing by nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and primary care physicians: a cohort study

Primary care provider typea

Total number of prescriptions, N (% of all prescriptions in medication class)

 

Dabigatran

Nurse practitioner (N = 383)

280 (2.8)

Physician assistant (N = 451)

374 (3.2)

Primary care physician (N = 4148)

13,261 (4.9)

 

Aliskiren

Nurse practitioner (N = 469)

478 (0.5)

Physician assistant (N = 548)

707 (0.6)

Primary care physician (N = 4338)

16,793 (0.8)

 

Sitagliptin/saxagliptin

Nurse practitioner (N = 435)

6126 (11.7)

Physician assistant (N = 527)

7895 (12.7)

Primary care physician (N = 4312)

153,926 (13.0)

 

Pitavastatin

Nurse practitioner (N = 451)

145 (0.2)

Physician assistant (N = 526)

299 (0.4)

Primary care physician (N = 4299)

6367 (0.5)

  1. aN indicates the total number of each provider type regularly prescribing each medication class