Income of Plaintiffs |
Mean (SD)1 | 1231.4 (858.7) | 1458.2 (1182.8) | 0.0093 | 1393.4 (999.8) | 1458.2 (1215.2) | 0.5753 |
Median (IQR)2 | 1004.5 (680.5–1263.8) | 1137.8 (680.5–1263.8) | | 1004.5 (680.5–1263.8) | 972.1 (680.5–1263.8) | |
Cost of medicines in the lawsuit |
Mean (SD)1 | 1.661.1 (4.561.7) | 779.2 (1.589.6) | 0.0053 | 1.884.1 (5.054.8) | 586.7 (1.640.3) | < 0.0013 |
Median (IQR)2 | 659.7 (188.6–1622.1) | 285.6 (101.0–195.8) | | 541.1 (191.6–1759.4) | 250.3 (94.5–616.3) | |
Prescription’s origin, n (%) |
Prescribed by a SUS clinician | 20 (25.6) | 38 (31.4) | 0.3824 | 46 (22.4) | 24 (43.6) | 0.0024 |
Prescribed by a private system clinician | 58 (74.4) | 83 (68.6) | | 159 (77.6) | 31 (56.4) | |
Classification of medicines, n (%) |
Within the SUS formulary | 261 (47.7) | 281 (41.8) | 0.0394 | 548 (49.5) | 104 (41.1) | 0.0204 |
Outside the SUS formulary with a therapeutic alternative | 145 (26.5) | 217 (32.3) | 0.0284 | 289 (26.1) | 94 (37.2) | < 0.0014 |
Outside the SUS formulary without a therapeutic alternative | 141 (25.8) | 174 (25.9) | 0.9634 | 271 (24.4) | 554 (21.7) | 0.3604 |