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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 22.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2023 Jan 24;129(7):1096–1104. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34642

Table 2:

Mean difference in number of toxicities (grade ≥2 and grade ≥3) among different categories of polypharmacy, PIM, and major PDI

Predictor/ outcome Mean difference in number of grade ≥ 2 toxicities Mean difference in number of grade ≥ 3 toxicities
Unadjusted model Adjusted model * Unadjusted model Adjusted model *
Polypharmacy (≥8 versus <8) 2.10 (8.25)** 1.87 (0.71)** 0.67 (3.30)** 0.59 (0.29)**
Polypharmacy (continuous)*** 0.24 (0.09)** 0.21 (0.10)** 0.07 (0.04)** 0.06 (0.04)
PIM (yes versus no) 0.41 (8.31) -- 0.19 (3.31) --
Major PDI (yes versus no) 0.07 (8.31) -- 0.21 (3.31) --

Abbreviations: PDI, potential drug-drug interactions; PIM: potentially inappropriate medications

*

Models are adjusted for age, cancer type, gender, comorbidity, function, social support, and study arm

**

P<0.05

***

effect estimate is correlation coefficient