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. 2019 Mar 20;21(3):e11486. doi: 10.2196/11486

Table 4.

Medication adherence by condition as measured by mean proportion of days covered and percent of individuals classified as adherent.

Metric		Diabetes	Dyslipidemia	Hypertension
PDC^a, mean (SD)
	Fixed PDC^a methodology	0.673 (0.320)	0.756 (0.291)	0.756 (0.256)
	Variable PDC methodology	0.917 (0.130)	0.921 (0.127)	0.929 (0.110)
Adherent (PDC≥0.80), n (%)
	Fixed PDC methodology	56,630 (48.09)	195,606 (61.64)	373,515 (55.46)
	Variable PDC methodology	87,365 (85.38)	248,709 (86.77)	572,553 (89.07)

^aPDC: proportion of days covered.