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Table 1 Characteristics of the 136 included orthopedic patients

From: Characteristics of elderly patients with polypharmacy who refuse to participate in an in-hospital deprescribing intervention: a retrospective cross-sectional study

 

Deprescribing for polypharmacy

P-valuea

Acceptance

Refusal

N = 82

N = 54

Age, mean ± SD

80.3 ± 7.5

82.3 ± 7.4

0.14

Men, n (%)

22 (26.8)

12 (22.2)

0.69

Institutional resident, n (%)

10 (12.2)

7 (13.0)

1.00

CCI, mean ± SD

1.9 ± 1.5

1.7 ± 1.7

0.50

Current smoker, n (%)

3 (3.7)

7 (13.0)

0.05

Regular drinker, n (%)

7 (8.5)

8 (14.8)

0.28

Number of medications at admission, mean ± SD

9.6 ± 3.2

9.0 ± 2.3

0.22

Primary reason for admission, n (%)

 Fracture

56 (68.3)

41 (75.9)

0.44

 Osteoarthritis

6 (7.3)

7 (13.1)

0.37

 Spinal stenosis

9 (11.0)

3 (5.6)

0.36

 Other

11 (13.4)

3 (5.6)

0.16

Past medical history, n (%)

 Depression

6 (7.3)

8 (14.8)

0.25

 Insomnia

28 (34.1)

21 (38.9)

0.59

 Dementia

15 (18.3)

11 (20.4)

0.83

 Stroke

23 (28.0)

10 (18.5)

0.23

 Myocardial infarction

8 (9.8)

6 (11.1)

0.78

 Heart failure

8 (9.8)

3 (5.6)

0.53

 Diabetes mellitus

19 (23.2)

11 (20.4)

0.83

 Asthma or COPD

10 (12.2)

4 (7.4)

0.57

 Rheumatological disease

10 (12.2)

6 (11.1)

1.00

 Active cancer

7 (8.5)

2 (3.7)

0.20

  1. aFisher’s exact tests or Student’s t-tests were used for comparisons between the acceptance and refusal groups. The threshold for statistical significance was set at p < 0.05