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From: Length of initial prescription at hospital discharge and long-term medication adherence for elderly, post-myocardial infarction patients: a population-based interrupted time series study

Fig. 2

Monthly proportion of post-myocardial infarction patients age 65 and older with long-term cardiac medication adherence at one year from hospital discharge from September 2015 to August 2018 in Ontario, Canada by intervention group: a) Standardized prolonged discharge prescription forms plus education, (2 sites, 1414 patients); b) education only (4 sites, 926 patients); c) control (143 sites, 18556 patients). Notes: Observed values are denoted by ‘x’, solid blue lines represent the fitted regression pre- and post-intervention trendlines, and the hatched blue line represents the projected pre-intervention trend assuming there was no intervention (i.e., the counterfactual)

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