TABLE 3.
Sensitivity analysis of the effect of different lengths of treatment gap period defining non-persistence.
| Treatment gap to define non-persistence (months) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 12 | |
| Non-persistent patients | |||||||
| 1st year | 3,897 (42.5) | 2,861 (31.2) | 2,187 (23.8) | 1,804 (19.7) | 1,524 (16.6) | 1,350 (14.7) | 832 (9.1) |
| 2nd year | 844 (9.2) | 782 (8.5) | 780 (8.5) | 770 (8.4) | 729 (7.9) | 670 (7.3) | 552 (6.0) |
| 3rd year | 333 (3.6) | 445 (4.9) | 476 (5.2) | 498 (5.4) | 493 (5.4) | 498 (5.4) | 441 (4.8) |
| 4th year | 190 (2.1) | 296 (3.2) | 340 (3.7) | 333 (3.6) | 346 (3.8) | 353 (3.8) | 344 (3.7) |
| 5th year | 140 (1.5) | 221 (2.4) | 223 (2.4) | 202 (2.2) | 194 (2.1) | 161 (1.8) | 18 (0.2) |
| Total | 5,404 (58.9) | 4,605 (50.2) | 4,006 (43.6) | 3,607 (39.3) | 3,286 (35.8) | 3,032 (33.0) | 2,187 (23.8) |
Values represent the frequency, and the percentages are provided in parentheses (% of n = 9,178).