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Table 4 Reasons for non compliance of patients to the prescribed treatment

From: Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients undergoing abdominal and pelvic cancer surgery: adherence and compliance to ACCP guidelines in DIONYS registry

 

Statistics

Abdominal

Pelvic

Abdominal + pelvic

All

Analysis set

N

435

390

96

921

Missing data

Nmiss

3

0

0

3

Prophylactic treatment should be prescribed

N

432

390

96

918

 Prohylactic treatment prescribed and correctly taken

n (%)

101 (23.4)

122 (31.3)

30 (31.3)

253 (27.6)

 Not taken

n (%)

4 (0.9)

5 (1.3)

1 (1.0)

10 (1.1)

  If no, reason

  Economic reason

n (%)

2 (0.5)

1 (0.3)

0

3 (0.3)

  Definitive prophylaxis discontinuation for medical reason

n (%)

0

2 (0.5)

0

2 (0.2)

  No pharmacy/No drug available at pharmacy

n (%)

0

1 (0.3)

0

1 (0.1)

  Discomfort

n (%)

1 (0.2)

0

0

1 (0.1)

  Omission

n (%)

0

1 (0.3)

0

1 (0.1)

  Other

n (%)

0

0

1 (1.0)

1 (0.1)

  Discomfort + Definitive prophylaxis discontinuation for medical reason

n (%)

1 (0.2)

0

0

1 (0.1)

  No or partial re-imbursement by Health system

n (%)

0

0

0

0

  Self-injection not possible

n (%)

0

0

0

0

  No-one to perform the injection

n (%)

0

0

0

0

  Missing

Nmiss

0

0

0

0

 Prophylactic treatment not prescribed and not taken

n (%)

327 (75.7)

262 (67.2)

65 (67.7)

654 (71.2)

 Unknown

n (%)

0

1 (0.3)

0

1 (0.1)