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Little is known about differential primary care prescribing patterns for people with and without ID.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title><jats:p>To compare medications recommended by GPs at encounters where ID is recorded versus other encounters.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design &amp; setting<\/jats:title><jats:p>Analysis of national Australian GP medication data from the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) programme, January 2003\u2013December 2012 inclusive.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>Medication recommendations made at encounters where an ID-defining problem was recorded as a reason for encounter (RFE) and\/or as a problem managed, were allocated to the \u2018ID group\u2019 (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 563). These encounters were compared with all other encounters (the \u2018non-ID group\u2019, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 1 004 095) during the study period. Following age\u2013sex standardisation of ID group encounters, significant differences were determined by non-overlapping 95% confidence intervals (CIs).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Antipsychotics and anticonvulsants were recommended more frequently at ID group encounters than at non-ID group encounters. Antidepressant and anxiolytic recommendation rates did not differ between groups. Narcotic analgesic and antihypertensive recommendations were significantly lower at ID group encounters.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Higher rates of epilepsy and mental illness, and off-label use of some antipsychotics and anticonvulsants for behaviour management in people with ID, may have contributed to medication recommendations observed in this analysis. 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