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What is Multivitamins?

A multivitamin is a preparation intended to supplement a human diet with vitamins, dietary minerals and other nutritional elements. Such preparations are available in the form of tablets, capsules, pastilles, powders, liquids and injectable formulations.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 50 4
Improve immune function 16 1
Support another treatment 2 1
Treat my HIV 2 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
6 100%

Dosages

Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Multivitamins. See all 15 dosages ►

  daily 2 cap(s) weekly 1 cap(s) daily 1 intl units daily 1 mL daily 1 other daily 1 tab(s) daily 2 cap(s) daily 2 tab(s) daily 6 cap(s) daily 50 mg daily 100 daily 100 mg daily 600 mg daily 4000 mg daily
  43 Number of Patients: 43 1 Number of Patients: 1 20 Number of Patients: 20 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 11 Number of Patients: 11 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Multivitamins (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
1 50% Other: 50%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped taking Multivitamins

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Multivitamins

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
3
11
14
24

Stopped Taking Multivitamins

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
0
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
4 67%
Usually
2 33%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
1 17%
Not at all
5 83%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
3 50%

Report created on November 21, 2009.