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)

^†Median (IQR) instead of n (%); IQR: interquartile range.