Pharmacy Related Questions Flashcards
For individual to understand basic health info and make appropriate health decision
Health literacy
Pharmacovogilence types
Active Pharmacovogilence (follow up, directly asking patients after treatment and checking their records)
Passive PV (ADR, company files)
REMS
Risk evaluation and mitigation strategy
Quality of life scale
1 = perfect health 0 = death -1 = worst possible health
Pharmacoeconomic analysis and outcomes
Cost minimization - none (health consequences are assumed similar
Cost effectiveness Analysis - natural physical units
Cost utility analysis - multidimensional (QALY, DALY)
Cost Benefit analysis - Monetary
Types of costs in Pharmacoeconomic analysis
Direct cost (meds diagnostics hospital charges) Indirect cost (productivity loss, sick leaves loss, premature death) Intangible cost ( pain suffering grief trauma)
Definition of management
Art of maximizing productivity
Helps Patient complete their train of thought
Use of reminders
Cost type when travelling from one place to another for treatment
Direct Non medical cost
PE perspective that Incorporate all cost regardless of who incurs or obtains them
Societal
DOT
Direct observed therapy
A third trained healthcare worker (not a family member) provides prescribed TB drugs and watches patient swallow every dose.
DOT
Direct observed therapy
A third trained healthcare worker (not a family member) provides prescribed TB drugs and watches patient swallow every dose.
What limits error detection
Mandatory reporting
Medical reconciliation
Process of identifying most accurate lost of all the medications that patient is taking Name dosage frequency route of admin
Communication technique to ensure your message was delivered correctly
Feedback
Patient with low literacy. What communication technique to be used?
More Visual aids
Most appropriate source of compounding medication info
USP
Used to assess patient adherence
Medication event system
Approximately 415 people have been diagnosed with diabetes. What is this term?
Prevelance
Which method is used with older patients to encourage them to change their behavior
Use teach-back more often throughout the session
Hazardous waste color coded system
Yellow - infections or biohazard waste. Marks SHARP is contains sharp objects
Radioactive ☢️ symbol - radioactive waste
Hazardous waste - yellow or red depending on country
Black general med waste
Laminar flow hood cleaning
70% Isopropanol
Alkaline buffers in commercial preps of aspirin? Function?
Increase rate of absorption by increasing pH.
Piperazine group in ciprofloxacin
Improves spectrum of antibacterial activity ( especially G-ve)
