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Table 4 Percentage of patients who were adherent (refill adherence) per general practicea) and correlations between drugsb)

From: Patient risk profiles and practice variation in nonadherence to antidepressants, antihypertensives and oral hypoglycemics

Type of drug

Proportion of adherent patients

95% CI interval

Correlations between drugs (for practices > 10 patients)

N

   

Antihyper- tensives

Antidepressants

 

Hypoglycemics

90.7

73–98%

0.53*

0.39*

65

Antihypertensives

86.7

74–95%

 

0.24

72

Antidepressants

77.9

65–83%

  

69

  1. * p < 0.01
  2. a) estimated with a multilevel model (empty model)
  3. b) estimated at the practice level