Users of dispensed antiepileptic medicines Netherlands 2014-2022

In 2022, the number of dispensed antiepileptic medicine users in the Netherlands amounted to roughly 370 thousand. Throughout the reflected years, the usage of dispensed antiepileptic medicines increased significantly year-on-year until 2022.

Total number of users of dispensed antiepileptic medicines in the Netherlands from 2014 to 2022

Characteristic	Number of users
2022	369,640
2021	358,320
2020	356,810
2019	359,750
2018	353,980
2017	351,970
2016	346,910
2015	336,780
2014	322,310

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2014 to 2022

Supplementary notes

User is defined as a patient who, throughout a calendar year, at least issued and received once the relevant medicine(s) or medical resource(s). This might also be the declaration from a reparation or adjustment of a certain medical resource.

Concerning pharmaceutical goods that are prescribed as well as (outside of institutions like hospitals and nursing homes) provided and compensated on the basis of the health insurance law (ZVW).

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