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Question 1

Refers to the proprietary name given by the manufacturer to distinguish its product from those of competitors.

Answer 1

Brand Name

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Cipher

Question 3

means a system of words or other symbols arbitrarily used to represent words.

Answer 3

Code

Question 4

means a characteristics style or symbols kept from the knowledge of others or disclosed confidentially to but one of few.

Answer 4

Secret Keys

Question 5

is one which deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled w/ respect to identify and/or source.

Answer 5

Counterfeit Drugs

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Dangerous Drugs

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Dispensing

Question 8

pharmaceutical outlets where registered drugs are dispensed directly to the end users or patients.

Answer 8

Drug outlets

Question 9

drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist.

Answer 9

Ethical drugs

Question 10

means dispensing the patient’s/buyer’s choice from among generic equivalents.

Answer 10

Generic Dispensing

Question 11

are not covered by the patient protection and which are labeled solely by their international non-proprietary or generic name.

Answer 11

Generic Drug

Question 12

any substance is contained for consumption.

Answer 12

Immediate Container

Question 13

means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon immediate container or the wrapper of a drug package.

Answer 13

Label

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Medication Error

Question 15

is written directions provided by a prescribing practitioner for a specific medication to be administered to an individual.

Answer 15

Medication Order

Question 16

medicines used for symptomatic relief or minor ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription.

Answer 16

OTC Drugs

Question 17

means dispensing less than the total number of units prescribed.

Answer 17

Partial filling of prescription

Question 18

• means the oral communication by the pharmacist of information to the patient or caregiver, to ensure proper use of drugs and devices.

Answer 18

Patient Counseling

Question 19

a prescription is not an order for medication which is dispensed for immediate administration to the ultimate user.

Answer 19

Prescription order

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

Prohibited Drug

Question 21

• 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.

Answer 21

Regulated drugs

Question 22

a written permission or authorization from DDB to prescribe dangerous drug preparations in any form or drug perparations containing controlled chemicals.

Answer 22

S2 license

Question 23

a label added on to a dispensed medication package by a pharmacist in addition to the usual prescription label.

Answer 23

Auxiliary labels

Question 24

patient who stays in a hospital while under treatment.

Answer 24

in patient

Question 25

patient who receives medical treatment without being admitted to a hospital.

Answer 25

out patient

Question 26

traditional symbol for prescription; use to line up the other parts of the

Answer 26

Rx

Question 27

write or let it be labeled; instructions for the patient

Answer 27

Signa or sig.

Question 28

an informal colloquial term for a prescription.

Answer 28

script

Question 29

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.

Answer 29

Caution

Question 30

-entering through the dermis, or skin, as in administration of a drug applied to the skin in ointment or patch form.

Answer 30

Transdermal

Question 31

• is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use.

Answer 31

Package insert

Question 32

• the measured quantity of a therapeutic agent to be taken at one time
• an amount of something likened to a prescribed or measured quantity

Answer 32

Dose

Question 33

• 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.

Answer 33

Dosage form

Question 34

the path by which A drug, fluid, poison or other substances is taken into the body.

Answer 34

Routes of Administration

Question 35

O T R P V I O O

Answer 35

…

Question 36

is the sealing mechanism of the container, or the pharmaceutical product.
- also known as stoppers or bungs.

Answer 36

Drug closure

Question 37

• an act regulating and modernizing the practice of pharmacy in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose R.A. NO. 5921.

Answer 37

RA 10918 (Pharmacy Law

Question 38

• 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

Answer 38

RA 3720 (Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act)

Question 39

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.

Answer 39

RA 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002

Question 40

an act of prohibiting counterfeit drugs, providing penalties for violation and appropriating funds.

Answer 40

RA 8203 (Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs)

Question 41

• 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.

Answer 41

RA 6675 (Generics Act of 1988)