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Table 3 Association between patients’ baseline characteristics and at least 1 PADE

From: The effect on potential adverse drug events of a pharmacist-acquired medication history in an emergency department: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled, parallel-group study

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)

0.0043

1.01 (0.99 - 1.03)

0.2770

Being female

1.76 (1.05 - 2.98)

0.0344

1.56 (0.83 - 2.93)

0.1673

Teaching hospital ED

    

San Carlos

0.52 (0.28 - 0.97)

0.0417

0.47 (0.21 - 1.01)

0.0542

La Samaritana

0.28 (0.14 - 0.53)

0.0001

0.22 (0.09 - 0.48)

0.0002

Number of hospitalisations

1.27 (1.03 - 1.63)

0.0369

1.29 (1.00 - 1.74)

0.0713

Number of comorbidities

1.35 (1.07 - 1.73)

0.0137

0.71 (0.49 - 1.00)

0.0511

Number of home medications

1.34 (1.21 - 1.50)

7.75E-08

1.36 (1.19 - 1.58)

1.75E-05

Intervention

0.36 (0.21 - 0.61)

0.0002

0.22 (0.11 - 0.42)

5.64E-06

  1. CI confidence interval, ED emergency department