Table 1 Characteristics of 1,256,049 patients in 308 general practices in the study
From: Adverse events recording in electronic health record systems in primary care
Study population n (%) | |
|---|---|
Gender | |
Male | 620,000 (49.4) |
Female | 636,024 (50.6) |
Age | |
0–4 | 64,080 (5.1) |
5–17 | 188,189 (15.0) |
18–44 | 429,686 (34.2) |
45–64 | 353,843 (28.2) |
65–74 | 125,886 (10.0) |
75–84 | 68,175 (5.4) |
85+ | 26,165 (2.1) |
Number of different medicines prescribed | |
0 | 401,783 (32.0) |
1–4 | 559,774 (44.6) |
5–9 | 201,738 (16.1) |
≥ 10 | 92,731 (7.4) |
Number of chronic diseases | |
0 | 769,604 (61.3) |
1 | 280,156 (22.3) |
2 | 111,195 (8.9) |
> 2 | 95,069 (7.6) |