Table 2.
Frequency and duration of treatment with free combination therapy, dutasteride 0.5 mg monotherapy, or tamsulosin 0.4 mg monotherapy in patients with prevalent BPH in South Korea
| Free combination therapy versus dutasteride monotherapy | Free combination therapy versus tamsulosin monotherapy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free combination of dutasteride plus tamsulosin therapy (n = 1529) | Dutasteride monotherapy (n = 6660) | Std. diff* | Tamsulosin monotherapy (n = 6566) | Std. diff* | |
| Treatment duration (days) | |||||
| Mean ± SD | 292.5 ± 54.1 | 297.1 ± 54.0 | 8.6 | 295.8 ± 54.0 | 6.1 |
| Median, IQR | 305.0 (249.0, 341.0) | 310.0 (260.0, 342.0) | 310.0 (255.0, 343.0) | ||
| Treatment duration, n (%) | |||||
| 6–9 months | 519 (33.9) | 2020 (30.3) | 7.7 | 2085 (31.8) | 4.7 |
| 9–12 months | 1010 (66.1) | 4640 (69.7) | 7.7 | 4481 (68.2) | 4.7 |
BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia; IQR, interquartile range; SD, standard deviation; Std. Diff, standardized difference
*For continuous variables, the standardized difference was calculated by dividing the absolute difference in means of the free combination therapy cohort and reference monotherapy cohorts by the pooled standard deviation (SD) of both groups, for each comparison. The pooled SD was the square root of the average of the squared SD. For dichotomous variables, the standardized difference was calculated using the following equation where P is the respective proportion of participants in each treatment cohort: [(Pfreecombination therapy- Preference)/ √(Pfreecombinationtherapyx(1 – Pfreecombinationtherapy) + Preference x (1 – Preference))/ 2]