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

Table 8

Perceived type of common dispensing errors in community pharmacies .

Perceived type of common dispensing errors	Independent variables
	Sex	Age	Educational level	Work experience	Additional work experience	Pharmacy ownership	Dispensing frequency
Dispensing wrong type of drug	P = 0.250	P = 0.158	P = 0.358	P = 0.106	P = 0.667	P = 0.339	P = 0.951
Dispensing with wrong dosing instruction	P = 0.382	P = 0.027	P = 0.110	P = 0.004	P = 0.250	P = 0.008	P = 0.337
Dispensing contraindicated drug	P = 0.524	P = 0.285	P = 0.928	P = 0.606	P = 0.509	P = 0.846	P = 0.950
Dispensing wrong dosage form	P = 0.269	P = 0.229	P = 0.549	P = 0.329	P = 0.642	P = 0.668	P = 0.710

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