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Table 4 Association between patients’ baseline characteristics and the number of class 3 PADEs

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 poisson regression

Multivariate poisson regression

Estimate (95 % CI)

p - value

Estimate (95 % CI)

p - value

Age

1.02 (1.01; 1.03)

2.58E-05

1 (0.99; 1.01)

0.4377

Being female

2.03 (1.82; 2.83)

1.19E-05

1.49 (1.06; 2.12)

0.0235

Teaching hospital ED

    

San Carlos

0.73 (0.52; 0.99)

0.0462

0.99 (0.7; 1.4)

0.9731

La Samaritana

0.4 (0.27; 0.58)

2.12E-06

0.46 (0.3; 0.69)

0.0003

Number of comorbidities

1.32 (1.17; 1.49)

3.05E-06

0.91 (0.78; 1.06)

0.2275

Number of hospitalisations

1.16 (1.08; 1.22)

4.66E-06

1.13 (1.04; 1.22)

0.0019

Number of home medications

1.23 (1.19; 1.3)

<2e-16

1.19 (1.13; 1.26)

1.18E-09

Intervention

0.62 (0.46; 0.83)

0.0012

0.6 (0.44; 0.8)

0.0007

  1. CI confidence interval, ED Emergency Department