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Table 2 Efficacy Outcomes

From: Feasibility & Efficacy of Deprescribing rounds in a Singapore rehabilitative hospital- a randomised controlled trial

A. Percentage change from baseline for medicine parameters expressed in median (interquartile range)

Outcome

Phases

Intervention (N = 126)

Control (N = 127)

p value

Total Daily Dose (TDD)

Inpatient phase, day 14 postrecruitment

̶ -12.50 (−27.27, 0.00)

0.00 (−11.43, 6.67)

< 0.001

 

Inpatient phase, day 28 postrecruitment

−14.91 (−32.00, 0.00)

0.00 (− 11.76, 7.14)

< 0.001

 

Discharge day (Primary Outcome)

− 19.62 (− 34.38, 0.00)

0.00 (− 12.00, 6.82)

< 0.001

 

Outpatient phase, day 28 postdischarge

− 22.54 (− 41.18, 0.00)

̶7.69 (− 28.57, 0.00)

0.001

Total Number of Medicine (TNM)

Inpatient phase, day 14 postrecruitment

̶ 5.26 (− 16.67, 0.00)

0.00 (−9.09, 5.88)

0.008

 

Inpatient phase, day 28 postrecruitment

0.00 (− 18.18, 5.56)

0.00 (−10.00, 5.88)

0.035

 

Discharge day

̶ 5.56 (−20.00, 0.00)

0.00 (−11.76, 5.88)

0.035

 

Outpatient phase, day 28 postdischarge

̶ 7.14 (−23.08, 0.00)

0.00(−16.67, 5.56)

0.203

Total Daily Cost (TDC)

Inpatient phase, day 14 postrecruitment

̶ 8.91 (−27.55, 0.00)

0.00 (−14.99, 3.57)

0.004

 

Inpatient phase, day 28 postrecruitment

−10.66 (−35.86, 0.00)

0.00 (−15.83, 5.63)

0.002

 

Discharge day

−14.74 (−38.22, 0.00)

0.00 (−23.90, 7.60)

0.001

 

Outpatient phase, day 28 postdischarge

−17.31 (−47.07, 0.00)

̶ 7.61 (−37.63, 1.80)

0.116

B: Analysis of the change of TDC/TNM/TDC across time using GLMM

  

Regression Coefficient (95% CI)

p value

 

TDD

Unadjusted group effects

−2.836 (−4.888, −0.785)

0.007

 
 

Adjusted* group effects

−3.113 (−5.153, −1.072)

0.003

 

TNM

Unadjusted group effects

−0.830 (−1.875, 0.216)

0.120

 
 

Adjusted group effects

−0.994 (−2.046, 0.0587)

0.064

 

TDC

Unadjusted group effects

−3.564 (−10.882, 3.754)

0.340

 
 

Adjusted group effects

−3.585 (−10.830, 3.661)

0.332

 
  1. Note: Percentage change from baseline is calculated for every individual participant before their collective median (IQR) is computed
  2. *Adjusted for repeated measurements throughout the study