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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Pharmacother. 2010 Jun 29;44(0):1171–1180. doi: 10.1345/aph.1M643

Table 4. Univariate analysis of anticholinergic use at 30 days.

Analysis of Maximum Likelihood Estimates

Parameter Estimate Standard Error Pr > χ2 OR 95% CI
Age 0.00903 0.0876 0.9179 1.009 0.850 – 1.198
Sex (male vs. female) 0.9414 0.4431 0.0336 2.563 1.076 – 6.109
Total number of diagnosesa 0.1827 0.1518 0.2285 1.201 0.892 – 1.616
Total number of Axis I diagnosesb 0.4980 0.2434 0.0408 1.646 1.021 – 2.652
Antipsychotic classc 2.6731 0.5431 <.0001 14.485 4.996 – 42.000
Daily antipsychotic dose at initiationd 0.00110 0.000527 0.0367 1.001 1.000 – 1.002
Daily antipsychotic dose at one monthd 0.00100 0.000489 0.0407 1.001 1.000 – 1.002
a

Total number of medical and psychiatric diagnoses recorded in the medical record at the most recent primary care and psychiatry notes of treating physicians

b

Chart documented psychiatric diagnoses categorized in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual for Psychiatric Disorders Text Revision

c

FGA or polypharmacy vs. SGA

d

Dose in chlorpromazine equivalents