d Flashcards
Refers to the proprietary name given by the manufacturer to distinguish its product from those of competitors.
Brand Name
Means a method of secret writing substitutes other letters or characters for the letter intended or transposes the letter after arranging them in blocks or squares.
Cipher
means a system of words or other symbols arbitrarily used to represent words.
Code
means a characteristics style or symbols kept from the knowledge of others or disclosed confidentially to but one of few.
Secret Keys
is one which deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled w/ respect to identify and/or source.
Counterfeit Drugs
refer to either prohibited drugs or regulated drugs which require a special prescription form, the use of which is monitored by the dangerous drugs board.
Dangerous Drugs
refers to the sum of processes performed by a pharmacist from reading, validating; and interpreting prescriptions; preparing; packaging; labeling; record keeping: dose calculations; and counseling or giving information, in relation to the sale or transfer of pharmaceutical products, with or without a prescription or medication order.
Dispensing
pharmaceutical outlets where registered drugs are dispensed directly to the end users or patients.
Drug outlets
drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist.
Ethical drugs
means dispensing the patient’s/buyer’s choice from among generic equivalents.
Generic Dispensing
are not covered by the patient protection and which are labeled solely by their international non-proprietary or generic name.
Generic Drug
any substance is contained for consumption.
Immediate Container
means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon immediate container or the wrapper of a drug package.
Label
any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.
Medication Error
is written directions provided by a prescribing practitioner for a specific medication to be administered to an individual.
Medication Order
medicines used for symptomatic relief or minor ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription.
OTC Drugs
means dispensing less than the total number of units prescribed.
Partial filling of prescription
- means the oral communication by the pharmacist of information to the patient or caregiver, to ensure proper use of drugs and devices.
Patient Counseling
a prescription is not an order for medication which is dispensed for immediate administration to the ultimate user.
Prescription order
which includes opium and its components and derivatives, such as heroin and morphine; coca leaf and its derivatives, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and other substances producing similar effects.
Prohibited Drug
- includes self-inducing sedatives, such as secobarbital, phenobarbital, pentobarbital, barbital, amobarbital and any other drug which contains a salt or a derivative of a salt of barbituric acids.
Regulated drugs
a written permission or authorization from DDB to prescribe dangerous drug preparations in any form or drug perparations containing controlled chemicals.
S2 license
a label added on to a dispensed medication package by a pharmacist in addition to the usual prescription label.
Auxiliary labels
patient who stays in a hospital while under treatment.
in patient
patient who receives medical treatment without being admitted to a hospital.
out patient
traditional symbol for prescription; use to line up the other parts of the
Rx
write or let it be labeled; instructions for the patient
Signa or sig.
an informal colloquial term for a prescription.
script
refers to the instruction and special care required in the used of the drug product to avoid undesired effects and to ensure the safe and effective use of the drug.
Caution
-entering through the dermis, or skin, as in administration of a drug applied to the skin in ointment or patch form.
Transdermal
- is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use.
Package insert
- the measured quantity of a therapeutic agent to be taken at one time
- an amount of something likened to a prescribed or measured quantity
Dose
- is defined as the physical form of a dose of a chemical compound used as a drug or medication intended for administration or consumption.
- are the means by which drug molecules are delivered to sites of action within the body.
Dosage form
the path by which A drug, fluid, poison or other substances is taken into the body.
Routes of Administration
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is the sealing mechanism of the container, or the pharmaceutical product.
- also known as stoppers or bungs.
Drug closure
- an act regulating and modernizing the practice of pharmacy in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose R.A. NO. 5921.
RA 10918 (Pharmacy Law
- an act to ensure the safety and purity of foods, drugs and cosmetics being made available to the public by creating the food and drug administration which shall administer and
RA 3720 (Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act)
an act instituting the comprehensive dangerous drugs act of 2002, repealing Republic Act No. 6425, otherwise known as the Dangerous Drug Act of 1972, as amended, providing funds therefor, and for other purposes.
RA 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002
an act of prohibiting counterfeit drugs, providing penalties for violation and appropriating funds.
RA 8203 (Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs)
- an act to promote, require and ensure the production of an adequate supply, distribution, use and acceptance of drugs and medicines identified by their generic names.
RA 6675 (Generics Act of 1988)
