Longitudinal results for 30,922 individuals at three month intervals before and after the transition to multi-dose drug dispensing (index date).

<p>(A) The mean number of unique drugs and substances (primary y-axis), the cumulative number of unique ICD-10-diagnoses, and the number of healthcare contacts within each three month period (secondary y-axis). (B) The proportion of the patients without a change in the number of drugs at a specific measure date compared with the previous one. (C) The proportion of the patients who had potentially harmful drug treatment according to indicators of prescribing quality. The individuals were censored when they returned to ordinary prescriptions and after death. The number of individuals included at each specific measure date is presented below the figures.