The associations of the number of medications and the use of anticholinergics with recovery from tubal feeding: a longitudinal hospital-based study

Table 3 The incidence of recovery to oral feeding and prescribed medications or ACBs

	Incidence of recovery to oral feeding
	Cox regression analysis		Bootstrap analysis
	Adjusted HR (95% CI)	P value	95% CI	P value
Model 1:
No adding prescribed medication	1
Adding prescribed medication (s)	0.65 (0.31–1.39) ^a	0.269	0.23–1.65	0.333
Model 2:
No adding 3 or more prescribed medication	1
Adding 3 or more prescribed medications	0.08 (0.01–0.59) ^a	0.014	0.03–0.42	0.024
Model 3:
No increase in ACBs	1
Increase in ACBs	0.36 (0.14–0.93) ^b	0.035	0.07–1.14	0.083

HR, hazard ratio, CI Confidence interval, ACBs Anticholinergic cognitive burden scale, HDS-R Hasegawa dementia rating scale-revised
^a Adjusted for age, sex, gastrostomy tube, cerebrovascular disease, wasting syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, HDS-R and the number of prescribed medications at the baseline
^b Adjusted for age, sex, gastrostomy tube, cerebrovascular disease, wasting syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, HDS-R, the number of prescribed medications at the baseline and the ACBs at the baseline

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