Impact
This department is the biggest attribute when it comes to planning for drug shortages
What is the pharmacy?
This organization has a purpose to make sure that quality medications are available to all patients
What is the office of Pharmaceutical Quality?
It is essential to lead effective drug shortage management by ensuring L+M has the necessary infrastructure and a well-defined management strategy in place _______ a shortage occurs.
What is before?
Who should conduct studies when a drug shortage is identified?
Who is the drug shortage team?
Tocilizumab was being used for COVID-19. It is now on extreme shortage, so this drug has taken its place. Though, this drug is now on shortage also
What is Baricitinib?
This is essential when it comes to planning for drug shortages and making a framework for the healthcare professionals.
What are guidelines?
These medications are most likely to have drug shortages
What are generic injectables?
This is an interdisciplinary team of key staff who can make decisions and access information.
What is the drug shortage team?
Name one of the two types of assessments the drug shortage team should conduct to evaluate a drug shortages impact
operational
therapeutic
This popular anticoagulation agent, used in pregnant women is on shortage
What is heparin?
This database is used to report medication errors, especially those due to drug shortages.
What is the Institute for Safe Medication Practices?
The goal of this management form is to have the minimum amount of supply on hand to meet the demand of patients.
Just-in-time inventory management
T or F: A single person can manage all drug shortage planning and response activities alone
False
Based on these two assessments and an evaluation of procedural and financial implications, a _______ should be used to assess the potential impact on patient care.
What is a shortage impact analyses?
This agent is used in COVID-19 patients to avoid the use of a ventilator
What is epoprostenol?
This is the biggest concern when drug shortages occur?
What is patient safety?
These types of hospitals have it harder when there are inventory problems due to distant distributors and long distances from other hospitals.
What are rural?
This type of committee should be formed to directly oversee the scarce resources such as drug products
What is a resource allocation committee?
Based on the shortage impact analysis, the drug shortages team should develop this
What is a final action plan for approval and implementation?
What is vancomycin?
These are at a higher risk of occurring when a change occurs to a prescription
What are medication errors?
Shortages of APIs are not typically of concern because of this
Not being told to the public
Name one of the 5 main principles of addressing ethical errors
Transparency
Relevance
Appeals and revision
Enforcement
Fairness
This organization created guidelines on Managing Drug Product Shortages
Who is ASHP?
Compared to this agent, alternative antimicrobial prophylaxis agents increased the risk for surgical site infections
What is cefazolin?