NSAID prescribing rates and gastrointestinal haemorrhage rates in all patients in the study practices and in other practices in the GPRD
| Study practices | Other practices | |
|---|---|---|
| NSAIDs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; GPRD, General Practice Research Database; ptpy, per thousand patient years. | ||
| No of practices | 369 | 317 |
| Patient years (thousands) | 22 064 | 8418 |
| NSAID prescriptions (thousands) | 10 128 | 3249 |
| NSAID prescriptions ptpy | 459 | 386 |
| Gastrointestinal haemorrhages (incident cases) | 26 068 | 10 054 |
| Gastrointestinal haemorrhages ptpy | 1.18 | 1.19 |