Table 4.
Statin | At hospital admission | At hospital discharge | ||||||
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Total number | % of all statins prescribed (n = 218) | Number eliminated in hospital | % eliminated in hospital | Total number | % of all statins prescribed (n = 491) | Number generated in hospital | % generated in hospital | |
Simvastatin | 8 | 3.7 | 3 | 37.5 | 36 | 7.3 | 31 | 86## |
Atorvastatin | 10 | 4.6* | 7 | 70 | 9 | 1.8 | 4 | 44.4 |
Rosuvastatin | 3 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 9 + 1 on warfarin | 2.0 | 7 | 70 |
Lovastatin | 3 | 1.4 | 2 | 66.7 | 3 | 0.6 | 3 | 100 |
Fluvastatin | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 66.7 |
Total | 25 | 11.5 | 12 | 48 | 60 | 12.4 | 47 | 77 ## |
*p < 0.05 vs. the corresponding % value at hospital discharge.
##p < 0.01 vs. % coprescriptions eliminated in hospital.