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Table 1 Characteristics of participants and prevalence of polypharmacy among inpatients and community patients

From: Is shared decision-making a determinant of polypharmacy in older patients with chronic disease? A cross-sectional study in Hubei Province, China

Variables	Inpatients							Community patients
	n	%	polypharmacy				P-value	n	%	Polypharmacy				P-value
			Yes		No					Yes		No
			n	%	n	%				n	%	n	%
Total	536	100	302	56.3	234	43.7		849	100.0	185	21.8	664	78.2
Gender							0.089							0.856
male	212	39.5	129	42.7	83	35.47		353	41.6	78	42.2	275	41.4
female	324	60.5	173	57.3	151	64.53		496	58.4	107	57.8	389	58.6
Age							0.382							0.022
66–75	284	53.0	155	51.3	129	55.1		740	87.2	152	82.2	588	88.6
≥ 76	252	47.0	147	48.7	105	44.9		109	12.8	33	17.8	76	11.4
Domicile							0.088							0.069
Urban	402	25.0	235	77.8	167	28.6		492	58.0	118	63.8	374	56.3
Rural	134	75.0	67	22.2	67	71.4		357	42.0	67	36.2	290	43.7
Education							0.750							0.229
Primary school and below	183	34.1	104	34.4	79	33.8		407	47.9	83	44.9	324	48.8
Junior high school	163	30.4	87	28.8	76	32.5		246	29.0	56	30.3	190	28.6
Senior high school and above	190	35.5	111	36.75	79	33.7		196	23.1	46	24.9	150	22.6
Family annual income/yuan							0.135							0.354
≤ 12,000	60	11.2	37	12.2	23	9.8		257	30.3	48	26.0	209	31.5
12,0001–24,000	45	8.4	23	7.6	22	9.4		60	7.1	20	10.8	40	6.0
24,001–36,000	95	17.7	31	10.3	64	27.4		95	11.2	16	8.7	79	11.9
≥ 36,001	336	62.7	211	69.9	125	53.4		437	51.5	101	54.6	336	50.6
Number of chronic diseases							< 0.001							< 0.001
1 disease	79	14.7	27	8.9	52	22.2		333	39.2	19	10.3	314	47.3
2 diseases	150	28.0	72	23.8	78	33.3		271	31.9	40	21.6	231	34.8
3 diseases and above	307	57.3	203	67.2	104	44.4		245	28.9	126	68.1	119	17.9
Compliance							-							0.004
Yes	-	-	-	-	-	-		530	62.4	99	53.5	431	64.9
No	-	-	-	-	-	-		319	37.6	86	46.5	233	35.1
SDM							0.943							0.996
Low	289	53.9	176	58.3	113	48.3		560	66.0	122	65.9	438	66.0
High	247	46.1	126	41.7	121	51.7		289	34.0	63	34.1	226	34.0
Type of Decision-Making							-							0.457
Informed	-	-	-	-	-	-		297	35.0	63	34.1	234	35.2
SDM	-	-	-	-	-	-		45	5.3	8	4.3	37	5.6
Paternalistic	-	-	-	-	-	-		507	59.7	114	61.6	393	59.2

SDM Shared decision making

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