Research Article
Anticoagulant Utilization and Cost Analysis among Cardiology Inpatients in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Western Nepal
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of patients (n = 132).
| Characteristics | Categories | n (%) |
| Age | 18–40 | 9 (6.8) | 41–50 | 11 (8.3) | 51–60 | 31 (23.5) | 61–70 | 34 (25.8) | 71–80 | 33 (25.0) | >80 | 14 (10.6) |
| Gender | Male | 77 (58.3) | Female | 55 (41.7) |
| Occupation | Business | 21 (15.9) | Service | 12 (9.1) | Agriculture | 14 (10.6) | Housewife or unemployed | 70 (53.0) | Others | 15 (11.4) |
| Education | Illiterate | 52 (39.4) | Literate but not attended formal classes | 19 (14.4) | Elementary level | 38 (28.8) | Secondary level | 17 (12.9) | Undergraduate and above | 6 (4.5) | †Length of hospital stay (days) | 1 to 15 | 6 (3) |
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†Median (IQR) instead of n (%); IQR: interquartile range.
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