Case vignette | Patients’ dependency level | Deprescribing decision | Without history of CVD (95% CI) | With history of CVD (95% CI) | Difference (95% CI)a |
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1 | low | ||||
 | (living in own house, no help needed for activities of daily living) | min. 1 medication | 95.1% (94.0 to 96.1) | 81.6% (79.6 to 83.5) | 13.5% (11.3 to 15.7) |
 | min. 2 medications | 88.2% (86.6 to 89.8) | 60.1% (57.7 to 62.5) | 28.1% (25.2 to 31.0) | |
 | min. 3 medications | 69.2% (66.9 to 71.5) | 26.5% (24.3 to 28.7) | 42.7% (39.6 to 45.9) | |
2 | medium | ||||
 | (living in own house, some help needed for activities of daily living) | min. 1 medication | 94.3% (93.1 to 95.5) | 87.4% (85.7 to 89.1) | 6.8% (4.8 to 8.9) |
 | min. 2 medications | 85.8% (84.0 to 87.5) | 68.5% (66.1 to 70.9) | 17.3% (14.3 to 20.3) | |
 | min. 3 medications | 67.6% (65.3 to 70.0) | 36.6% (34.1 to 39.1) | 31.0% (27.6 to 34.5) | |
3 | high | ||||
 | (living in nursing home, help needed for nearly all activities of daily living) | min. 1 medication | 94.1% (92.8 to 95.3) | 90.4% (88.8 to 91.9) | 3.7% (1.7 to 5.7) |
 | min. 2 medications | 88.5% (86.8 to 90.1) | 79.2% (77.1 to 81.3) | 9.3% (6.6 to 12.0) | |
 | min. 3 medications | 78.4% (76.2 to 80.5) | 58.6% (56.0 to 61.1) | 19.8% (16.5 to 23.1) |