Table 3.
Estimated medication schedule groups.
| n = (978) | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|
| 8.4 g less than every other d | 67 | 6.85 |
| 8.4 g every other d | 33 | 3.37 |
| 8.4 g less than daily | 53 | 5.42 |
| 8.4 g daily | 675 | 69.02 |
| 16.8 g less than daily | 7 | 0.72 |
| 16.8 g daily | 123 | 12.58 |
| *16.8 g greater than daily | 20 | 2.04 |
Medication schedule groups represents an estimation of how often the patient was instructed to take patiromer for an individual dispensing event. N is the total number of patiromer dispensing events.
Patiromer is available as 8.4 g, 16.8 g, and 25.2 g packet strengths but we did not observe any dispensing events of the 25.2 g packet strengths in our pharmacy dispensing data.