Perception of Community Pharmacists towards Dispensing Errors in Community Pharmacy Setting in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 7

Perceived solutions for minimizing dispensing errors .

Perceived solutions for minimizing dispensing errors	Independent variables
	Sex	Age	Educational level	Work experience	Additional work experience	Pharmacy ownership	Dispensing frequency
Improving prescription hand writing	P = 0.007	= 0.009	= 0.217	= 0.030	= 0.518	= 0.820	= 0.397
Reducing workloads on pharmacist	P = 0.253	= 0.096	= 0.243	= 0.139	= 0.633	= 0.325	= 0.519
Keeping drug knowledge up-to-date	P = 0.003	= 0.127	= 0.382	= 0.119	=	= 0.511	= 0.323
Having drug names that are distinctive	= 0.684	= 0.167	= 0.206	= 0.576	= 0.294	= 0.802	=
Improving packaging & labeling	= 0.504	= 0.169	= 0.247	= 0.456	= 0.903	= 0.359	= 0.089
Checking original prescription	= 0.849	= 0.225	= 0.434	= 0.758	= 0.906	= 0.971	= 0.552
Systematic dispensing workflow	= 0.165	= 0.044	= 0.158	= 0.389	= 0.841	= 0.794	= 0.042
Having mechanism for checking dispensing procedures	= 0.597	= 0.049	= 0.774	= 0.135	= 0.630	= 0.815	= 0.465
Counseling patients at the time of supply	= 0.291	= 0.515	= 0.866	= 0.640	= 0.492	= 0.262	= 0.385
Privacy when counseling patients	= 0.555	= 0.180	= 0.404	= 0.027	= 0.695	= 0.318	= 0.468

Note. 5 point likert scale (0 = never, 4 = very often), = statistically significant at , Mann-Whitney test.