Patients’ ability to read and understand dosing instructions of their own medicines – a cross sectional study in a hospital and community pharmacy setting

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of scores (out of 10) per medication for completeness, readability and knowledge of dosing instructions among study participants

Score out of 10	Completeness^a			Readability^a			Comprehension^a
Score out of 10	Mean	Median	SD	Mean	Median	SD	Mean	Median	SD
Hospital pharmacy	6.4	6.7	1.4	8.3	8.3	1.8	7.5	7.5	1.3
Community pharmacy	7.3	7.5	0.6	7.9	8.0	1.5	8.0	7.5	1.3

SD standard deviation, HPS hospital pharmacy setting, CPS community pharmacy setting
^aThe number medicines dispensed was used as the denominator

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