Definitions
This term is referred to as the study of drug movement throughout the body including what happens to the drug as it makes this journey. Could also refer to how much of an administered dose gets to its sites of action.
What is Pharmacokinetics
This term refers to the ability or tendency of a chemical to induce tumors (benign or malignant), increase their incidence of malignancy, or shorten the time of tumor occurrence when it is inhaled, ingested, dermally applied, or injected.
What is Carcinogenicity
Name the 3 type of drug names
What are:
(1) a chemical name
(2) generic name
(3) brand name
This Act, passed in 1970, set rules for the manufacture and distribution of drugs considered to have potential for abuse
What is the Controlled Substances Act
Human factors, communication mistakes, name confusion, packaging devices, labeling and reference material are causes of this
What is Medication errors
This term refers to the study of the biochemical and phyisologic effects of drugs and the molecular mechanisms by which those effects are produced.
You could say it is the study of what drugs do to the body and how they do it.
What is Pharmacodynamics
If a drugs administration to the pregnant mother, directly or indirectly, causes a structural or functional change in the fetus or child, this is referred to as _________
What is Teratogenicity
The name under which a drug is marketed (sold) is called the ______ name. These drugs names are created by drug companies
What is Brand Name?
This Act of 1938 was the first legislation to regulate drug safety
What is The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
The strongest safety warning a drug can carry and still remain on the market
What is black box warning
Name the term that is known as compliance or concordance and may be defined as the extent to which a patient's behavior coincides with medical advice.
What is Patient Adherence
This term includes adverse effects on sexual function and fertility in adult males and females, as well as developmental toxicity in the offspring. It is called _________ toxicity
What is Reproductive
This drug name is assigned by the U.S. Adopted Names Council. Also known as the non-proprietary name. Each drug has only one name.
What is Generic name?
This Act provides funding to combat a nationwide opioid epidemic by addressing the crisis from multiple approaches
What is The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016
Any noxious, unintended and undesired effect that occurs at normal drug doses
What is An adverse drug reaction
Beneficial effects of some medications may take several weeks to become maximal. This is referred to as reaching _________ ________
What is Therapeutic Effect
This term that refers to the ability of harmful substances to damage genetic information in cells.
What is Genotoxicity
This drug name constitutes a description of a drug using the nomenclature of chemistry.
What is Chemical name
This type of pharmaceutical research method is the most reliable way to objectively assess drug efficacy and safety
What is The randomized controlled trial
Drugs that pose a risk of torsades de pointes, a dysrhythmia that can progress to fatal ventricular fibrillation
What are drugs that prolong the QT interval
These are the 4 basic pharmacokinetic processes.
What are: (1) drug absorption, (2) drug distribution, (3) drug metabolism and (4) drug excretion
Name at least 3 types of personal protective equipment and engineering controls used when working with hazardous materials.
double chemotherapy gloves
Protection gown
eye-face protection
respiratory protection
ventilated engineering control
This term refers to a medication that can be purchased without a prescription.
What is over-the-counter or OTC medications?
Because these 2 groups of people have been excluded from drug trials in the past, our understanding of drug efficacy and safety in these groups is limited for many drugs.
What are women and children
A major cause of morbidity and mortality related to drug administration
What are medication errors