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 5

Characteristics of the drug information centers in the studied hospitals.

Utensils	Hospitals
	TASH	St. Peter	Mekelle	Jimma	Gondar
Room Area	24.4 m^2	5.2 m^2	45 m^2	13 m^2	22 m^2
Computers	✓ (5)	✓	✓ (6)	x	✓ (12)
Printers	✓ (3)	x	x	✓ (1)	✓ (1)
Photocopier	✓ (1)	X	x	x	x
Textbooks	✓ (Plenty)	✓ (30)	✓ (20)	x	✓ (Plenty)
Journals	✓ (Plenty)	x	x	x	X
Electronic information Resources	✓ (1)	X	✓ (1)	x	✓ (1)
Telephone	✓	X	x	x	X
Internet	✓	✓	✓	x	x
Pharmacist staff	2	1	3	1	4

✓: present; x: absent.