Pharmacist counseling to cardiac patients in Israel prior to discharge from hospital contribute to increasing patient's medication adherence closing gaps and improving outcomes

Table 7 Represents the results of stepwise regression analysis after inserting the independent variables

Variables	r
Pharmacist counseling	0.141 -
Number of chronic medications	0.131
Age	0.054
Sex	0.074 -

By analyzing the stepwise regression, it is noticed that the relation between medication adherence and readmissions is not statistically significant [F _(1,73) = 9.43, n.s]. None of the other variables can explain the variance in the number of readmissions

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