Attitude and perception of pharmacists and healthcare professionals about the criteria used in drug formulary selection in the United Arab Emirates

Table 3 Participants’ attitude about the criteria used in drug formulary selection according to demographics

Demographics	Groups	N	Mean	± SD	95% CI		p value
					Lower	Upper
Gender	Male	240	90.51	12.98	88.86	92.16	0.032*
Gender	Female	626	88.05	15.84	86.80	89.29
Education	Bachelor	611	89.24	15.67	87.99	90.48	0.121
	Master's degree	170	86.34	14.58	84.13	88.55
	Pharm D	42	88.80	11.68	85.16	92.45
	PhD	43	90.93	11.51	87.38	94.47
Health organization	Hospital	637	88.30	14.70	87.16	89.45	0.167
Health organization	PHC	229	89.92	16.28	87.80	92.04
Experience years	1–5 years	61	87.96	15.47	84.00	91.92	0.392
	6–10 years	176	88.21	15.07	85.97	90.45
	11–20 years	355	88.11	15.75	86.47	89.75
	> 20 years	274	90.04	14.28	88.34	91.74
Area of expertise	Nursing	497	88.58	15.65	87.20	89.96	0.018*
	Regulatory Staff	14	77.21	26.66	61.81	92.61
	Community Pharmacy	25	93.40	11.83	88.51	98.28
	Clinical pharmacy	124	89.80	13.84	87.34	92.26
	Dentistry	20	91.30	13.68	84.89	97.70
	Other paramedical members	12	96.16	9.40	90.18	102.14
	Physician	174	87.83	13.72	85.78	89.89
Ever use pharmacoeconomic data	Yes	308	90.01	14.37	88.40	91.62	0.065
Ever use pharmacoeconomic data	No	558	88.03	15.52	86.73	89.32

PHC Primary Health care centers, SD standard deviation, CI confidence interval
*: (P ≤ 0.05) is statistically significant

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