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. 2022 Aug 25;16:2313–2320. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S377780

Table 1.

Patient Medication Implementation in 2020 and 2019 Using the Clean Database

EM Database 2020 (n = 118)
All Patients (n = 118)
Periods Implementation Odds Ratio
Estimate 95% CI Estimate 95% CI p-value
Beforea 0.903 0.869 0.929 NA
Duringb 0.901 0.863 0.929 0.979 0.835 1.147 0.789
Afterc 0.895 0.856 0.923 0.911 0.787 1.056 0.217
Patients with cancer (n = 10)
Beforea 0.964 0.889 0.989 NA
Duringb 0.962 0.891 0.987 0.945 0.755 1.182 0.619
Afterc 0.942 0.821 0.983 0.610 0.512 0.726 <0.001g
Patients with diabetic kidney disease (n = 25)
Beforea 0.972 0.948 0.985 NA
Duringb 0.962 0.931 0.979 0.731 0.485 1.100 0.133
Afterc 0.960 0.932 0.977 0.701 0.462 1.063 0.094
Patients with HIV (n = 61)
Beforea 0.892 0.842 0.928 NA
Duringb 0.905 0.853 0.939 1.146 0.959 1.368 0.133
Afterc 0.893 0.840 0.930 1.008 0.822 1.237 0.938
Miscellaneous patients (n=22)
Beforea 0.861 0.765 0.922
Duringb 0.828 0.706 0.907 0.781 0.534 1.140 0.200
Afterc 0.835 0.713 0.911 0.818 0.633 1.056 0.124
EM database 2019 (n = 61)
All patients (n = 61)
Periods Implementation Odds Ratio
Estimate 95% CI Estimate 95% CI p-value
Winterd 0.922 0.894 0.942 NA
Springe 0.909 0.873 0.936 0.852 0.706 1.029 0.097
Summerf 0.895 0.860 0.923 0.728 0.596 0.891 0.002

Notes: aFrom December 1, 2019 to March 15, 2020; bFrom March 16 to June 7, 2020; cFrom June 8 to September 30, 2020; dFrom December 1, 2018 to March 15, 2019; eFrom March 16 to June 7, 2019; fFrom June 8 to September 30, 2019; gThis result is not interpretable as only 5/10 (50%) patients with cancer were still using the EM on September 30, 2020.

Abbreviation: NA, not applicable (reference period).