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Table 1 Baseline Characteristics

From: Feasibility & Efficacy of Deprescribing rounds in a Singapore rehabilitative hospital- a randomised controlled trial

 

Intervention (N = 126)

Control (N = 127)

Demographics

 Age, Median (IQR)

76 (70, 81)

75 (70, 80)

 Female, N (%)

73 (58.7)

76 (59.8)

Ethnicity

 Chinese, N (%)

109 (86.5)

112 (88.2)

 Malay, N (%)

8 (6.4)

7 (5.5)

 Indian, N (%)

8 (6.4)

8 (6.3)

 Eurasian, N (%)

1 (0.8)

0 (0.0)

Discipline

 Rehabilitation, N (%)

102 (81.0)

100 (78.7)

 Subacute, N (%)

24 (19.1)

27 (21.3)

Other parameters

 AMT Score, Median (IQR)

10.0 (9, 10)

10.0 (9, 10)

 Length of Stay in days, Median (IQR)c

27 (17.5, 38)a

22 (13, 32)b

Baseline medicine parameters

 Total Daily Dose (TDD), Median (IQR)

23 (18, 28)

23 (18, 29)

 Total Number of Medicine (TNM), Median (IQR)

13 (11, 16)

13 (10, 17)

 Total Daily Cost (TDC) in S$, Median (IQR)

5.94 (4.32, 9.08)

6.18 (3.98, 9.74)

  1. an = 124; bn = 127; cp = 0.040
  2. Note: p is ≥0.05 for all characteristics except for length for stay
  3. IQR: Interquartile range