Table 4 |
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Percentage of patients who were adherent (refill adherence) per general practicea) and correlations between drugsb) |
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Type of drug |
Proportion of adherent patients |
95% CI interval |
Correlations between drugs (for practices > 10 patients) |
N |
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Antihyper- tensives |
Antidepressants |
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Hypoglycemics |
90.7 |
73–98% |
0.53* |
0.39* |
65 |
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Antihypertensives |
86.7 |
74–95% |
0.24 |
72 |
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Antidepressants |
77.9 |
65–83% |
69 |
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* p < 0.01 a) estimated with a multilevel model (empty model) b) estimated at the practice level |
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van Dijk et al. BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:51 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-7-51 |
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