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Table 2 Non-adherence to medications at a one-month follow-up.

From: An easy intervention to improve short-term adherence to medications in community-dwelling older outpatients. A pilot non-randomised controlled trial

Outcomes

Intervention

(n= 54)

Control

(n= 54)

Pvalue

 

Perc. (n)

Perc. (n)

 

Any adherence error

20 (11)

59 (32)

< 0.001

Therapy suspended

13 (7)

33 (18)

0.021†

Therapy never taken

7 (4)

28 (15)

0.010†

Therapy never stopped

0 (0)

19 (10)

0.001†

Unintentional adherence error

15 (8)

32 (17)

0.067†

  1. † Statistical analysis was performed by using Fisher's exact test.