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Relationship between patient's and prescription's characteristics and potential drug-drug interactions |
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| Variables |
Patients without potential drug-drug interactions in their prescription n = 132 |
Patients with at least one potential drug-drug interactions in their prescription n = 492 |
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| Gender (female) |
105 (79.5) |
386 (78.5) |
| Civil status (single) |
61 (46.2) |
259 (52.6) |
| Did not work |
102 (77.3) |
416 (84.6) |
| Literacy (only elementary school o less) |
67 (54.9) |
266 (62.9) |
| Patient age ≥ 60* |
87 (65.9) |
406 (82.5) |
| Number of disease ≥ 3* |
73 (55.3) |
396 (80.5) |
| Cardiovascular disease* |
43 (32.6) |
403 (81.9) |
| Musculoskeletal and joint disorders |
126 (95.5) |
471(95.7) |
| Gastrointestinal disease |
48 (36.4) |
205 (41.7) |
| Endocrine, alimentary and metabolic disease* |
38 (28.8) |
275 (55.9) |
| Pulmonary disease |
8 (6.0) |
31 (6.3) |
| Mental disease |
12 (9.1) |
21 (4.3) |
| Neurological disease |
11 (8.3) |
40 (8.1) |
| Infections and parasitic disease |
30 (22.7) |
88 (17.9) |
| Number of medicines ≥ 5* |
50 (37.9) |
383 (77.8) |
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Doubova (Dubova) et al. BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:147 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-7-147 |
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