Table 2.

General Practitioners’ Ways of Understanding Responsibility for Current Patient Drug Lists (N = 20)

GP Identification No.	Sex of Interviewee (Years in Profession)	Category A Imposed Responsibility	Category B Responsible for Own Prescriptions	Category C Responsible for All Drugs	Category D Different but Shared Responsibility	Category E Patient Transferring Drug Information
GP=general practitioner.
Note: Distribution of each individual physician’s predominant understanding (++) and less-dominant understanding (+) as expressed in the interviews. Categories were labeled after informant’s description of what was in focus regarding responsibility for patient drug list.
2	Male (24)	++		+
15	Male (23)	++		+
10	Male (22)	+	++			+
1	Male (21)		++
5	Female (20)		++
11	Female (1)		++		+	+
3	Male (1)	+	++			+
6	Male (trainee)	+	++		+	+
16	Female (24)		++		+	+
13	Male (12)		++		+	+
7	Female (14)		++		+
8	Male (1)		++
14	Male (trainee)		++			+
12	Male (27)			++	+
18	Male (23)			++		+
9	Male (17)	+		++
4	Female (12)		+		++	+
17	Female (4)	+	+			++
19	Male (1)		+		+	++
20	Female (trainee)		+		+	++