The need for patient-centric medicine design: investigating key physical characteristics of oral solid medications to improve acceptance of older patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Mohammed Chane Assefa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mohammedchane0119@gmail.com (MCA), dereje.keborg@gmail.com (DKB)

  Affiliations School of pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia,, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia,

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2867-6141

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• Getahun Paulos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Komar University of Science and Technology, Iraq,

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• Fikadu Ejeta,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia,

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• Dereje Kebebe Borga

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  * E-mail: mohammedchane0119@gmail.com (MCA), dereje.keborg@gmail.com (DKB)

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, College of Applied Natural sciences, Adama Sciences and Technology University, Adama, Oromia, Ethiopia

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