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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Card Fail. 2013 Oct 29;19(12):10.1016/j.cardfail.2013.10.007. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2013.10.007

Table 3.

HF Medication Adherence based on the MEMS (number of actual dosages/number of prescribed dosages X 100 = % adherence)

Group Baseline
N
M ±SD (%)(Min-Max)
4- M
N
M ±SD (%)(Min-Max)
8-M*
N
M ±SD (%)(Min-Max)

 Subjects Enrolled [UC, PFE, FPI] 117 [38, 42, 37] 96 [31, 33, 32] 85 [29, 30, 26]

UC 32 25 23
 HF Medication 79.5 ± 26.2 (15 – 100) 87.1 ± 14.3 (52 – 100) 87.9 ± 14.6 (48 – 100)

 Diuretic 26 22 25
89.2 ± 15.4 (48 – 100) 89.7 ± 12.7 (62 – 100) 88.0 ± 14.4 (49 – 100)

PFE 35 27 26
 HF Medication 91.2 ± 12.5 (43 – 100) 89.2 ± 16.4 (33 – 100) 89.5 ± 14.1 (52 – 100)

 Diuretic 34 27 26
91.9 ± 13.6 (53 – 100) 85.6 ± 17.8 (43 – 100) 83.8 ± 19.9 (33 – 100)

FPI 34 22 20
 HF Medication 87.3 ± 19.7 (38 – 100) 85.5 ± 19.6 (29 – 100) 82.9 ± 22.6 (29 – 100)

 Diuretic * 29 18 16
83.8 ± 26.1 (10 – 100) 84.9 ± 23.0 (33 – 100) 73.2 ± 30.1 (19 – 100)

No significant overall differences by group or time.

*

For diuretic doses, there was a significant decline in FPI between BL and 8M (p=.037), and there was a significant difference between usual care and FPI at 8 M (p=.032).