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Table 3 Spearman correlation between multiple prescription adherence measures for subsequent intervals (years and quarters)

From: Estimating medication adherence from Electronic Health Records: comparing methods for mining and processing asthma treatment prescriptions

  1. CMAs 1–4 are measures of medication acquisition while CMAs 5–8 are measures of medication availability. For the latter, the subscript denotes the oversupply handling approach: Discarding all remaining medication, Retaining all remaining medication, Capping the amount of remaining medication. CMA1 and CMA2 have values in the range [0,∞), While CMAs 3 to 8 have values in the range [0,1]. For all measures, a value of 1 represents ‘perfect’ adherence. Values over 1 for CMA1 and CMA2 represent ‘excessive’ adherence, or medication oversupply. All correlation coefficients were statistically significant (p < 0.05). Colour coding key for magnitude of correlation coefficient: light orange – less than 0.3, light green – 0.3 to 0.4, medium green – 0.4 to 0.5, dark green – over 0.5