Top five ranked medication safety problems by stakeholder group
| Rank | Pharmacy users | Professionals | Community pharmacists |
| 1 | Pharmacies lacking facilities to provide different services such as counselling and compounding medication. | Pharmacies lacking facilities to provide different services such as counselling and compounding medication. | The lack of drug information software resources that help pharmacists retrieve information quickly. |
| 2 | Lack of community pharmacists adhering to regulations. | Look-alike medication or sound-alike medication, which are medicine brand names that look or sound the same as other medicine brand names when written or spoken. | Pharmacists’ long working hours. |
| 3 | The lack of communication between the pharmacist and the prescribing physician. | Patients using multiple medications. | Patients not providing full information about their health condition. |
| 4 | The lack of a patient database in community pharmacies in Saudi Arabia. | The lack of a patient database in community pharmacies in Saudi Arabia. | The lack of a patient database in community pharmacies in Saudi Arabia. |
| 5 | The lack of post-registration education for pharmacists. | The lack of knowledge of community pharmacists. | Commercial pressure from pharmaceutical companies on prescribing physicians. |