Table 2 Association between patients’ baseline characteristics and medication discrepancies
Characteristics | Univariate logistic regression | Multivariate logistic regression | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Odds ratio (95%CI) | p-value | Odds ratio (95%CI) | p-value | |
Age | 1.02 (1.01 - 1.04) | 0.00496 | 1.02 (0.99 - 1.04) | 0.2475 |
Being female | 1.37 (0.74 - 2.52) | 0.312 | 1.27 (0.56 - 2.87) | 0.5659 |
Educational level | ||||
No schooling | 0.83 (0.20 - 3.69) | 0.800466 | 1.21 (0.15 - 10.33) | 0.8579 |
Elementary level | 0.77 (0.26 - 1.98) | 0.603804 | 0.80 (0.16 - 3.79) | 0.7851 |
High school level | 0.70 (0.23 - 1.85) | 0.492108 | 0.92 (0.21 - 3.69) | 0.9116 |
Emergency department (Teaching hospitals) | ||||
San Carlos | 0.43 (0.18 - 0.98) | 0.0496 | 0.26 (0.07 - 0.89) | 0.0366 |
La Samaritana | 0.32 (0.14 - 0.70) | 0.00548 | 0.28 (0.07 - 1.00) | 0.0553 |
Number of hospitalisations | 1.18 (0.93 - 1.69) | 0.242 | 1.00 (0.74 - 1.48) | 0.9825 |
Allergic reaction | 1.55 (0.71 - 3.79) | 0.297 | 0.74 (0.24 - 2.34) | 0.602 |
Number of comorbidities | 1.56 (1.14 - 2.19) | 0.00734 | 0.89 (0.53 - 1.55) | 0.6774 |
Number of home medications | 1.45 (1.25 - 1.72) | 5.51E-06 | 1.62 (1.31 - 2.06) | 3.12E-05 |
Intervention | 0.11 (0.04 - 0.23) | 4.65E-08 | 0.04 (0.01 - 0.11) | 1.16E-09 |