Recruitment and participants
FIRE
General practitioners had to be participating in the Family medicine ICPC Research using Electronic medical records (FIRE) project throughout the trial.General practitioners recruited eight to 10 eligible patients (supplementary figure A) by using random screening lists generated from their practice’s electronic health record data.Patients were aged ≥65 years, were taking five or more long term medications (≥90 days) and had at least three chronic conditions on the basis of on ICPC-2 (international classification of primary care, 2nd edition) coding or general practitioners’ clinical judgement. To maximise the generalisability of the study population, we kept exclusion criteria to a minimum. Exclusion criteria were inability to provide consent and participation in a different intervention study.