Assessment of the Use and Status of New Drug Information Centers in a Developing Country, Ethiopia: The Case of Public University Hospital Drug Information Centers

Table 1

Queries, documentation period, requester characteristics, and receiving modes for the drug information centers of the hospitals.

Hospital	Documented queries (No.)	Eligible for analysis (No.)	Percentage ()	Documentation period
TASH	116	116	28.5	November/2013-August/2015 (22 months)
St. Peter	11	11	2.7	Not recorded
Mekelle	143	143	35.1	July/2013-August/2014 (14 months)
Jimma	57	57	14.0	July/2012-July/2015 ( 36 months)
Gondar	112	80	19.7	January/2013-May/2015 (29 months)
Total	439	407	100
Drug information requesters
Health Professionals		385	99.5%
General Public		2	0.5%
Total		387	100.0%
Missing		20	- - - -
Mode of receiving query
	No.	%
Morning round	39	9.8%
Phone	20	5.0%
In person (Walk in)	181	45.4%
Other	8	2.0%
Not documented	151	37.8%
Total	399+8	100.0%
Missing/	8	- - - -

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