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Fig. 3

From: The impact of the ‘Better Care Better Value’ prescribing policy on the utilisation of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers for treating hypertension in the UK primary care setting: longitudinal quasi-experimental design

Fig. 3

Quarterly number of antihypertensive prescriptions comparing HSCIC and CPRD dataset. b: time point when BCBV policy was implemented (April 2009); HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre dataset, which contains whole dispensing data for all indications in England; CPRD: Clinical Practice Research Datalink, which contains prescription data for essential hypertension patients who registered in the practices included in CPRD; ACEIs: Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors; ARBs: Angiotensin receptor blockers; CCBs: Calcium channel blockers; BBs: Beta-blocker

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