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Table 2 Patient characteristics and their distribution according to the presence of a pharmaceutical intervention

From: Development and assessment of PharmaCheck: an electronic screening tool for the prevention of twenty major adverse drug events

Patients characteristics

Total

No intervention

Intervention

p-value

Odd ratio [95CI]

Number of patients

383

301

82

Sex ratio = \(\frac{{\varvec{n}}{\varvec{u}}{\varvec{m}}{\varvec{b}}{\varvec{e}}{\varvec{r}}\boldsymbol{ }{\varvec{o}}{\varvec{f}}\boldsymbol{ }{\varvec{m}}{\varvec{a}}{\varvec{l}}{\varvec{e}}}{{\varvec{n}}{\varvec{u}}{\varvec{m}}{\varvec{b}}{\varvec{e}}{\varvec{r}}\boldsymbol{ }{\varvec{o}}{\varvec{f}}\boldsymbol{ }{\varvec{f}}{\varvec{e}}{\varvec{m}}{\varvec{a}}{\varvec{l}}{\varvec{e}}}\)

1.14

1.23

0.86

0.15

Age (years old)

74

IQR: 61–82

min–max: 17–97

73

IQR:58–82

min–max:17–96

77

IQR: 72–84

min-max: 19–97

 < 0.001

1.03

[1.01;1.05]

Number of drugs per prescription when alert was fired off

13

IQR: 10–17

min–max: 1–40

13

IQR:10–17

min–max:1–40

13

IQR:9–18

min–max:3–30

0.9

1.0

[0.96;1.03]

Length of stay (days)

10.5

IQR: 4–13.5

min–max: 0–84

10

IQR:4–13

min–max:0–84

13

IQR:6–14.5

min–max:3–26

0.57

1.0

[0.96;1.02]

  1. Values in bold represent the medians
  2. IQR interquartile range, 95CI 95% confidence interval