Table 2. Opioid prescribing in Practice A and Practice B in the index week 2017

	Practice A	Practice B	Both practices
Number of patients in practice (all ages)	14 355	8486	22 841
Prescriptions for opioids: including compound drugs	914	734	1648
non-compound drugs	389	275	664
Patients prescribed opioids: including compound drugs	821 (5.7%)^a	667 (7.9%)^a	1488 (6.5%)^a
non-compound drugs	337 (2.3%)	246 (2.9%)	583 (2.6%)
Patients with estimated daily dose ≥120 mg ME	34^b (2.37)^c	19 (2.24)^c	53 (2.32)^c
as above + use for more than 1 year	25 (1.74)	14 (1.65)	39 (1.71)
Patients with dose ≥60 mg & <120 mg ME in one drug	28^d (1.95)	21 (2.47)	49 (2.15)
as above + other opioid(s)	15 (1.04)	4 (0.47)	19 (0.83)

^a% of all practice patients prescribed these drugs. ^bIn this practice there were an additional 4 patients with a cancer diagnosis. ^cNumber per thousand patients. ^dIn this practice there was 1 additional patient with a cancer diagnosis.
Results in bold are the main findings of the study.