Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics
| Patients | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ambulatory elderly accessing 2 community pharmacies | Institutionalized elderly in one nursing home facility | |
| Collection of data | ||
| Prescriptions of reimbursed medications | Medical files with all recommended medications | |
| Items of data included in each collection | 345 prescriptions | 91 medical files |
| mean age (±SD) (years old) | 74.8 (±6.24) | 80.77 (±6.82) |
| range of individual age | 65-92 years old | 65-98 years old |
| women (% of the elderly patients, in the each population group) | 211 (61.16 %) | 53 (58.24 %) |
| age groups | ||
| 65-75 years old | 193 (55.94 %) | 21 (23.08 %) |
| 76-85 years old | 129 (37.39 %) | 48 (52.75 %) |
| >85 years old | 23 (6.66 %) | 22 (24.17 %) |
| number of medications in each collection of data | 1111 | 752 |
| median number of medications/item of data | 3 | 8 |
| Diagnoses mentioned in each collection of data | ||
| total number of diagnoses | 748 | 399 |
| median number of diagnoses/item of data | 2 | 4 |
| Frequency of types of diagnoses in each collection of data | ||
| Type of diagnosis | number of prescriptions with the respective type of diagnosis (% of the total number of prescriptions) | number of medical files with the respective type of diagnosis (% of the total number of medical files) |
| cardiovascular | 222 (64.34 %) | 85 (93.40 %) |
| neuropsychiatric | 64 (18.55 %) | 38 (41.75 %) |
| rheumatologic | 61 (17.68 %) | 33 (36.26 %) |
| diabetes | 58 (16.81 %) | 14 (15.38 %) |
| gastrointestinal | 26 (7.53 %) | 12 (13.18 %) |
| respiratory | 28 (8.11 %) | 5 (5.49 %) |
| urologic | 20 (5.79 %) | 10 (10.98 %) |
| ophthalmologic | 16 (4.63 %) | 10 (10.98 %) |
| other | 25 (7.24 %) | 24 (26.37 %) |