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What is Digoxin?

Digoxin is a treatment for various heart conditions including congestive heart failure, extracted from the foxglove plant digitalis. It helps in the control of heartrate in atrial fibrillation or flutter by decreasing the conductivity of the heart's muscle fibres.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Atrial Fibrillation 11 0
CHF (Congestive heart failure) 8 1 Efficacy_cant_tell
regulate heart rate 6 1 Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 4 0
Support heart health 4 0
Heart arrhythmias 4 1 Efficacy_moderate

See all 41 patients currently taking Digoxin

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 3

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Digoxin. See all 11 dosages ►

  50 mcg (0.05 mg) daily 125 mcg (0.125 mg) m,w,f 2 x 50 mcg (0.05 mg) daily 125 mcg (0.125 mg) daily 250 mcg/mL (0.25 mg/mL) daily 250 mcg (0.25 mg) daily 0.25 mg daily 1 mg daily 15 other daily 25 mg daily
  2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 18 Number of Patients: 18 2 Number of Patients: 2 15 Number of Patients: 15 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Digoxin (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 4   Doctor's advice: 40%
Side effects too severe 3   Side effects too severe: 30%
Other 2   Other: 20%

See all 8 patients who’ve stopped taking Digoxin

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Digoxin

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

Stopped Taking Digoxin

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

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Digoxin

Always
 2 67%
Usually
 1 33%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Digoxin

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 3 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Digoxin

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

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Report created on May 27, 2012.