Table 5.

Secondary Outcomes, in Relation to Study Group

Outcome	Pre-implementation Group	Post-implementation Group	p Value
Medications at discharge	n = 60*	n = 57†
No. of medications at discharge (mean ± SD)	8.7 ± 3.3	9.3 ± 3.7	0.30‡
No. of Beers list medications at discharge (mean ± SD)	0.8 ± 0.9	0.9 ± 0.9	0.31‡
No. (%) of patients taking > 5 medications	51 (85)	50 (88)	0.67§
	n = 62**	n = 58††
No. (%) of patients with readmission within 30 days	10 (16)	5 (9)	0.33§
Median length of hospital stay (days)	8	14	< 0.001‡‡

SD = standard deviation.

^*Does not include 8 patients who died before discharge and 2 whose documentation for discharge medication was missing.

^†Does not include 8 patients who died before discharge, 1 whose documentation for discharge medication was missing, and 1 who was alive and still in hospital at the time of data analysis.

^‡By independent-samples t test.

^§By χ² test.

^**Does not include 8 patients who died before discharge

^††Does not include 8 patients who died before discharge and 1 who was alive and still in hospital at the time of data analysis.

^‡‡By Mann-Whitney U test.