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. 2016 Sep 13;16(1):114. doi: 10.1186/s12876-016-0530-4

Table 3.

Crude and multivariate predictors of medication discrepancies

Crude OR (95 % CI) Adjusted ORa (95 % CI)
Age ≥60 1.5 (0.5 – 4.7) 0.9 (0.2 – 4.7)
Male gender 0.6 (0.2 – 2.4) 1.0 (0.1 – 6.6)
Regular GP 9.2 (1.0 – 83.1) -
≥1 Comorbidity 5.3 (1.4 – 20.1) 2.8 (0.3 – 23.9)
≥5 Conventional Medicines 5.8 (1.5 – 22.7) 11.0 (1.8 – 67.4)
MMAS ranking Low 7.2 (0.6 – 81.5) 20.7 (1.3 – 337.7)
Medium 20.4 (2.00 – 211.89) 49.0 (3.3 – 718.5)

aOdds ratio adjusted for number of conventional medicines and the MMAS score. Analysis excludes 10 patients who did not complete the MMAS section of the questionnaire