Assessment of patient satisfaction towards auditable pharmaceutical transactions and services implemented in outpatient hospital pharmacy in Ethiopia.

Background: Patient satisfaction is a widely used indicator to measure quality of pharmacy services. Currently, a transformational pharmacy service called auditable pharmaceutical transactions and services is being implemented nationally in Ethiopia. However, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the national impact of this system on patient satisfaction.

Changes in pattern of thyroid surgical diseases in Zewditu Hospital, Addis Ababa.

Three hundred and thirty four patients were operated for thyroid diseases in five years time between 1996-2000. This figure constitutes 7 percent of all operations done in the same hospital during the same period. Female to male ratio was 6.