Table 2.

Therapy stop causes

Therapy stop causes
Cause	count	percent
Unknown	1026	0.52
Ongoing	398	0.20
Failure	372	0.19
Side effects	67	0.03
Change of therapy	57	0.03
Adherence	38	0.02
Supervised Interruption	23	0.01
TOTAL	1981

EuResist defines a therapy based strictly on the compounds included. Any change in compounds is recored as a therapy change. The reason for therapy change was recorded for 75% of the records included here, and are listed in the database under the following categories.