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Table 2 Number of drugs and automatically detected complexity factors per patient, for all groups and both time points respectively

From: HIOPP-6 – a pilot study on the evaluation of an electronic tool to assess and reduce the complexity of drug treatment considering patients’ views

 

GI_with

GI_without

GC

Between-group comparisona

Drugs

Median number of drugs at t0 (range)

9.5 (6—15)

8.5 (6—14)

9.0 (6—16)

PANOVA = 0.284

Median number of drugs at t1 (range)

9.0 (5—18)

8.5 (6—14)

8.0 (6—16)

PANOVA = 0.148

Within-group comparison (t0 vs t1)a

PANOVA = 0.921

PANOVA = 0.939

PANOVA = 0.715

 

Complexity factors

Median number of factors at t0 (range); total number of factors

7.0 (1—20); 360

6.0 (1—19); 260

6.0 (1—22); 286

PANOVA = 0.134

Median number of factors at t1 (range); total number of factors

6.5 (0—16); 336

6.0 (1—18); 239

5.0 (1—21); 252

PANOVA = 0.044

Within-group comparison (t0 vs t1)a

PANOVA = 0.363

PANOVA = 0.347

PANOVA = 0.143

 
  1. aPoisson regression with an ANOVA-based group comparison (test statistics compared by chi-square distribution); analysis of number of drugs was controlled for number of factors and vice versa