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 2

Types and purpose of queries received.

Types		Responses
		N	Percent
Type of queries	General product information	80	13.7%
	Adverse Effect	51	8.7%
	Availability of Dosage forms	39	6.7%
	Drug interaction	115	19.7%
	Therapeutic use	104	17.8%
	Others	119	20.4%
	Not documented	75	12.9%
Total		583	100.0
Purpose			Percent
Valid	Better patient care	138	33.9
	Update the knowledge	102	25.1
	Education/academic	2	.5
	Not documented	160	39.3
	Total	402	98.8
Missing		5	1.2
Total		407	100.0

Others include product identification, adult dosage recommendation, pediatric dosage recommendation, geriatric dosage recommendation, compounding, method/rate of administration, drugs in pregnancy and lactation, contraceptives, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, product availability, compatibility/stability, price, dietary supplements, local/foreign drug equivalence, diagnosis, side effect, contraindication, duration of treatment, dosage form, overdose, Ethiopian traditional medicine, drug food interaction, pathophysiology, drug of choice, pharmaceutical information, dose calculation, renal dose adjustment, therapeutic failure, treatment failure, dose, addiction, toxicology, and antidote.