Table 2 Major topics and subthemes

Major topic 1: Prescribing of medication after MI

- Prescribed medications

- Hospital recommendations

- Cardiologists’ role in GPs’ prescribing

- GPs’ perspectives on the impact of NSTEMI, patients’ gender and patients' age on prescribing

- Further reasons for not prescribing guideline recommended medication

Major topic 2: Non-adherence of patients

- GPs’ perception of non-adherence

- Assessing medical non-adherence

- Attributed reasons for non-adherence

- Improving adherence