Table 1.
Disposition medications: Statins.
List of medications prescribed to more than 1000 patients during the study period, associated to the Statin disposition in SNOMED CT with their full list of active ingredients and the number of patients who were prescribed that medication regularly within the study period. Full list available in S5 Table.
Table 2.
Study population demographics grouped by the number of regular dispositions they were on within the study period, 0 dispositions, 1 to 4 dispositions, 5 or more dispositions, and total count of patients with that demographic trait.
Table 3.
Mixed-effects multivariable logistic regression model. Outcome: polypharmacy, defined as being on ≥5 dispositions.
Fig 1.
Disposition pair-wise combinations.
Frequency distribution of the most commonly occurring pair-wise combinations of dispositions prescribed regularly during the study period. For example, 4.4% of the study population were regularly prescribed both a statin and a proton pump inhibitor during the study period.
Table 4.
Total and mean direct annual drug costs of study population with 1 or more dispositions by the number of regular dispositions they were on within the study period; 1 to 4 dispositions, 5 or more dispositions, and the total within each demographic trait.