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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2015 May;99(5):1003–1008. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000454

Table 5.

Medication Administration and Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality ICD-9 code Derived Patient Safety Indicator Events

Event Participants taking both CNI and Statin

Yes No

N % N % p-value

Myopathy Yes 30 1 14 1 0.35
No 2494 99 1572 99

Participants taking both ACEI and AZA

Yes No

N % N % p-value

Shock/Sepsis Yes 19 5 297 8 0.04
No 359 95 3435 92

Participants taking Sulfonylurea or Metformin
stratified by tertile of GFR

Yes No

N % N % p value

Diabetic Ketoacidosis/Coma*
Low tertile GFR.........Yes 70 34.5 133 65.5 <.0001
.................................... No 207 18.5 915 81.5
Middle tertile GFR......Yes 70 32.9 171 15.4 <.0001
.................................... No 143 67.1 938 84.6
High tertile GFR........Yes 61 28.1 197 17.1 .0001
.................................... No 156 71.9 955 82.9
Hypoqlycemia**
Low tertile GFR.........Yes 6 3.0 32 2.8 0.83
.................................... No 197 97.0 1090 97.2
Middle tertile GFR ..Yes 10 4.7 13 1.2 0.002
.................................... No 203 95.3 1096 98.8
High tertile GFR..... ..Yes 8 3.7 18 1.6 0.052
.................................... No 209 96.3 1134 98.4

CNI – calcineurin inhibitor, AZA = azathioprine, ACEI = angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor GFR=estimated glomerular filtration rate.

*

p value = 0.34