Roles of Professionals in Medication Administration
According to guidelines of this administration, each person in the medication pathway has a specific duty.
What is Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ?
This assures consumers that they are receiving safe medications.
Drug Standards
Clinical trials are used to compare the response of volunteer individuals to the drug with other volunteers' response to ______.
What is placebo ?
What is Pure food and Drug Act of 1906 ?
This Act created standards to ensure that both prescription and OTC medications were in child-resistant packages .
What is Posion Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 ?
This mean to gives the medications by the route described
What is administer ?
Drug manufacturers must meet standards set in this for quality, and efficacy, strength or potency and purity of a drug.
United States Pharmacopeia- National Formulary (USP-NF)
This refers to the ability of a drug to produce the desired chemical change in the body.
What is Drug Efficacy ?
Prevented fraudulent therapeutic claims by drug manufactures.
What is Shirley Amendment of 1912 ?
This Act established National Drug Code for use by the FDA to identify a drug's manufacturer, including the drug formulation and the size of the packaging, by using a unique and permanent code for drugs.
What is Drug Listing Act of 1972 ?
This person is the central figure in the drug administration because he or she determines the specific drug therapy required for specific patients in a specific situation.
What is Physician ?
This specifies the type and concentration of a chemical substance present in drugs.
What is Drug Purity?
This type of company is known to spend vast amounts of money on drug development and advertising.
What is Pharmaceutical Company ?
Established the word narcotic and required the use of a stamp on the containers of these drugs .
What is Harrison Narcotic Act or Federal Narcotic Drug Act of 1914 ?
This Act allowed for briefer investigation of new drugs and to allow for faster access by the consumer.
What is Drug Regulation and Reform Act of 1978 ?
With the growing number of OTC drugs, the available ability of information concerning their actions and their interactions with this medication will prevent reactions detrimental to the patient.
What is prescription medications
Also known as strength is the concentration of active ingredients in the preparation measured by chemical analysis.
What is Drug Potency ?
Legislation now also requires that all new medications undergo stringent testing before release to ensure _____ of these therapeutic agents and therefore consistency with use.
What is Drug Standardization ?
This Act provided safety testing on all drugs.
What is Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 ?
Established in response to the removal of drugs because of potential dangers or the lack of research.
What is Orphan Drug Act of 1983 ?
This percentage of visits to a physician result in a prescription
What is sixty percent
This ensures that consumers receive medications that achieve the standards required by the federally approved USP-NF.
What is Drug Quality ?
By trial and error, early civilizations found this source that could be used to treat diseases processes. This was a precursor to folk medicine.
What is Plant source ?
Required that all prescriptions be labeled "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription"
What is Durham- Humphrey Amendment (1951) replaced laws of 1938 ?
Repealed the 50 laws passed between 1914 and 1970 concerning drug control.
What is Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 ?