Table 1.

Characteristics of study hospitals.

Characteristics	Hospitals
	H-AT	H-BE	H-CR	H-GR	H-SP	H-SR
Number of hospital beds	1,773	1,995	350	650	271	550
Number of physicians	1,582	1,686	149	556	368	130
Number of hospital pharmacists	33	32	3	5	8	3
Number of pharmacy technicians	64	52	5	3	14	2
Type of hospital	Tertiary care university hospital	Tertiary care university hospital	General university hospital	General university hospital	Tertiary care university hospital	Tertiary care university specialized hospital
Existing Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Existing medicine shortages task force group	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Existing internal guidelines on medicine shortages mitigation pathways/strategies	No	Under development	No	No	No	No
Dedicated pharmacists in charge of medicine shortages	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes