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Table 10 Factors Associated with Knowledge (on Beers’ Criteria) and Practice of Hospital Pharmacists to prevent potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly patients (n = 66)

From: Potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly: physicians’ and hospital pharmacists knowledge, practice, confidence, and barriers

Variables

Poor Knowledge (%)

Good Knowledge (%)

Poor Practice (%)

Good Practice (%)

Qualifications

 Bachelor of Pharmacy

43 (68.3)

20 (31.7)

10 (15.9)

53 (84.1)

 Pharm D

2 (66.7)

1 (33.3)

1 (33.3)

2 (66.7)

 

2 = 0.690]

[p = 0.954]

[y = 0.619]

[p = 0.431]

Additional Qualifications

 Bachelor of Pharmacy

43 (68.3)

20 (31.7)

10 (15.9)

53 (84.1)

 Additional qualifications

21 (63.3)

12 (36.4)

3 (9.9)

30 (90.9)

 

2 = 7.976]

[p = 0.240]

[y = 0.254]

[p = 0.615]

Years of Practice

 Less than one

2 (66.7)

1 (33.3)

0 (0.0)

3 (100)

 1-5

20 (76.9)

6 (23.1)

5 (19.2)

21 (80.8)

 6-10

13 (68.4)

6 (31.6)

5 (26.3)

14 (73.7)

 11-15

7 (53.8)

6 (46.2)

1 (7.7)

12 (92.3)

 More than 15 years

3 (60.0)

2 (40.0)

0 (0.0)

5 (100.0)

 

[y = 1.539]

[p = 0.215]

[y = 1.245]

[p = 0.265]

Heard of criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing.

 Yes

18 (75.0)

6 (25.0)

2 (8.3)

22 (91.7)

 No

27 (64.3)

15 (35.7)

9 (21.4)

33 (78.6)

 

2 = 0.808]

[p = 0.369]

[y = 1.886]

[p = 0.303]

Number of Patients above the age of 65 years seen in a day.

  < 10

10 (71.4)

4 (28.6)

3 (24.1)

6 (78.6)

 11-20

17 (73.9)

6 (26.1)

3 (13.0)

20 (87.0)

 21-30

11 (64.7)

6 (35.3)

2 (11.8)

15 (88.2)

 31-40

6 (60.0)

4 (40.0)

2 (20.0)

8 (80.0)

 41-50

0 (0.0)

1 (100.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (100.0)

 Greater than 50

1 (100.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (100.0)

0 (0.0)

 

[y = 3.429]

[p = 0.634]

[y = 6.020]

[p = 0.304]

Knowledge of Beers’ Criteria

 Poor Knowledge (< 80%)

  

7 (15.6)

38 (84.4)

 Good knowledge (> 80%)

  

4 (19.0)

17 (81.0)

   

[y = 0.126;

p = 0.733]

  1. χ2 = Chi-square, significant p-value < 0.05, y = linear by linear association