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An appropriate gap depends on the typical time between prescriptions during continued use. This work aims to characterise the interval between prescriptions of chronic drugs (long\u2010term use) using different methods for a cohort of older people in primary care in Ireland.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The prescription interval was analysed for 38\u2009154 patients over 2011\u20132020 for the 20 most common drug classes in the dataset and the association between covariates and the interval was analysed using a multi\u2010level model. Estimates were also compared with those obtained from the parametric waiting time distribution (pWTD) approach.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Prescription and demographic factors had consistent relationships with prescription intervals across drug classes. Each additional prescription issue was associated with increases in the interval by 5.0 (NSAIDs) to 19.7\u2009days (\u2018other antidepressants\u2019). Full public health cover was associated with a \u221229.0\u2009day (inhaled adrenergics) to \u221211.0\u2009day (opioids) change relative to partial cover, whilst other\/private health cover had a \u221217.9\u2009day (benzodiazepines and associated drugs) to \u22127.1\u2009day (SSRI and SNRIs) change relative to partial cover. The pWTD produced consistent estimates of the population interval for most drugs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The prescription interval varied substantially within drug classes, due to patient, practice and unmodelled factors. Variation between practices was effectively explained, with residual variation between patients and within patients. The pWTD approach is useful for describing complex distributions of intervals, and may be more appropriate for inferring a gap than summarising truncated data.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/pds.70505","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,16]],"date-time":"2026-10-16T07:32:58Z","timestamp":1792135978000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Prescription Intervals of Medications for Chronic Use: A Cohort Study"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"35","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9369-749X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ryan","family":"Muddiman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences  Dublin Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-6301-696X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Padraic","family":"Donoghue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences  Dublin Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4406-6656","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jessica G\u00f3mez","family":"Lemus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences  Dublin Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4149-1574","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ann Sin\u00e9ad","family":"Doherty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences  Dublin Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3228-0046","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fiona","family":"Boland","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Data Science Centre, School of Population Health RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences  Dublin Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2986-5994","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Caroline","family":"McCarthy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Practice RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences  Dublin Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9838-3625","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Frank","family":"Moriarty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences  Dublin Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,16]]},"reference":[{"issue":"13","key":"e_1_2_11_2_1","first-page":"201","article-title":"Deprescribing: What Is It and What Does the Evidence Tell us?","volume":"66","author":"Wade Thompson B. 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