Number of discrepancies between the medication records from the general practitioner and from the home-care services before and after the implementation of multidose drug dispensing, classified on the basis of whether the drugs were dispensed in a multidose package or not
| No of discrepancies before implementation, N†=386 | No of discrepancies after implementation, N†=424 | Absolute reduction in the percentage of discrepancies (95% CI) | p Value | |
| Multidose dispensable drugs | 82 (21%) | 50 (12%) | 10.2% (3.1% to 17.3%) | 0.006 |
| Drugs not suitable for multidose dispensing | 51 (13%) | 34 (8%) | 5.0% (1.2% to 8.7%) | 0.010 |
| Drugs to be used as required | 70 (18%) | 49 (12%) | 6.0% (0.42% to 11.6%) | 0.036 |
| Total | 203 (53%) | 133 (31%) | 21.0% (11.8% to 30.2%) | <0.001 |
↵† Number of prescriptions.