Gender Disparities in Patients’ Decisions about the Management of Myocardial Infarction in East Chinese Province
Table 1
Evaluation of patients’ adherence to long-term medication including DAPT and statins.
Adherence score
Definition
4
Patient claimed that he/she never missed any drug with full records of medicine-purchasing or just inadvertently missed the antiplatelet drugs or statins prescribed by the doctor occasionally
3
Patient missed either one of the DAPT or statins once or twice a week
2
Patient missed either one of the DAPT or statins more than twice a week
1
Patient admitted that he/she took either one of the DAPT or statins less than twice a week
0
Patient admitted that he already stopped antiplatelet therapy or statins for at least one week
