aGlobal evaluation of adherence considers the
proportion of adherence and the care when taking medications;*p-value <0,0001- Friedman’s ANOVA test and
Dunn-Bonferroni postest; **p-value=0,0027 – McNemar’s
test; ***p-value <0,0001- McNemar’s test.
TABLE 2 Sensitivity and specificity tests, positive predictive
value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of the Global Evaluation
of Adherence Instrument (GEMA) and the Brazilian versions of the
Measurement of Adherence to Treatment (MAT) and the Morisky Medication
Adherence Scale - 8 item (MMAS-8), and the stability of the
International Normalized Ratio (INR) in patients taking an oral
anticoagulant (n = 124).