Table 2 Percentage of general practitioners (GPs) deprescribing in case vignettes, sorted by GPs’ decisions to deprescribe at least one, two or three medications in the respective case vignette, patients’ level of dependency in activities of daily living, and patients’ history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) (N = 1,706)

1

(living in own house, no help needed for activities of daily living)

min. 1 medication

95.1% (94.0 to 96.1)

81.6% (79.6 to 83.5)

13.5% (11.3 to 15.7)

min. 2 medications

88.2% (86.6 to 89.8)

60.1% (57.7 to 62.5)

28.1% (25.2 to 31.0)

min. 3 medications

69.2% (66.9 to 71.5)

26.5% (24.3 to 28.7)

42.7% (39.6 to 45.9)

2

(living in own house, some help needed for activities of daily living)

min. 1 medication

94.3% (93.1 to 95.5)

87.4% (85.7 to 89.1)

6.8% (4.8 to 8.9)

min. 2 medications

85.8% (84.0 to 87.5)

68.5% (66.1 to 70.9)

17.3% (14.3 to 20.3)

min. 3 medications

67.6% (65.3 to 70.0)

36.6% (34.1 to 39.1)

31.0% (27.6 to 34.5)

3

(living in nursing home, help needed for nearly all activities of daily living)

min. 1 medication

94.1% (92.8 to 95.3)

90.4% (88.8 to 91.9)

3.7% (1.7 to 5.7)

min. 2 medications

88.5% (86.8 to 90.1)

79.2% (77.1 to 81.3)

9.3% (6.6 to 12.0)

min. 3 medications

78.4% (76.2 to 80.5)

58.6% (56.0 to 61.1)

19.8% (16.5 to 23.1)