Table 3.

Relationships between the MRCI score and the therapeutic group.

Therapeutic Group	Results of Linear Regression Analysis			Correlations between MRCI Score and Number of Prescribed Medicines within Therapeutic Groups *
	B	95% CI	p Value	R Value	p Value
Cardiovascular	5.20	3.55; 6.94	<0.001	0.35	<0.001
Respiratory	9.83	8.46;11.19	<0.001	0.34	<0.001
Gastro-intestinal	5.94	4.60; 7.27	<0.001	0.46	<0.001
Psychiatric	1.99	0.67; 3.30	0.003	0.31	<0.001
Neurological	5.53	4.13; 6.94	<0.001	0.39	<0.001
Endocrine	2.73	1.29; 4.18	<0.001	0.30	<0.001
Skin	7.41	5.74; 9.08	<0.001	0.34	0.002
Musculo-skeletal	3.39	1.72; 3.99	<0.001	Insufficient variation for analysis

Note: * Spearman’s correlation coefficient.