NAPSRX CORE MAIN ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Why is noncompliance a serious public health concern? - ✔✔Increasing medical
care cost.
✔✔Legally bioequivalence of different versions od a drug can vary by up to what? -
✔✔20%
✔✔What is no true about biologies? - ✔✔They do not cause an immune response.
✔✔What are the drugs that attract or bind to cell receptors in order to mimic or enhance
activities by endogenous channel messages? - ✔✔Agonists
✔✔Which term denotes how an API works in the body? - ✔✔Mechanism for action.
✔✔What cements the active and inert components together to maintain cohesive
portions? - ✔✔Binders
✔✔What does the medical abbreviation BID denote? - ✔✔Twice a day.
✔✔What is the medical abbreviation for as needed? - ✔✔PRN
✔✔Which components might cause patients different reactions to brand name and
generic drugs? - ✔✔Differences in inactive ingredients.
✔✔Do all cells have a nucleus? - ✔✔No
✔✔What is the typical relationship between a drugs site of administration and site of
action? - ✔✔They are usually somewhat removed from each other.
✔✔What is CMAX? - ✔✔The peak plasma concentration on a measuring curve.
, ✔✔What is not a main concept in pharmacology? - ✔✔Pharmacoprocesses
✔✔What is not a route of drug administration? - ✔✔Transfugal
✔✔How are intradermal drugs delivered? - ✔✔By injecting under the skin.
✔✔What is an example of intravenous drug delivery? - ✔✔An injection of anesthetic
directly into the bloodstream.
✔✔What are the major organs of the gastrointestinal system? - ✔✔The mouth,
esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, small and large intestines.
✔✔What differentiates exclusivity from a patent? - ✔✔Exclusivity is only granted upon
the drugs FDA approval.
✔✔What is required of an invention for it to be worthy of patent protection? - ✔✔It must
be novel, useful, and not obvious.
✔✔A generic drug is ____________ to the originator brand name drug in dosage,
strength, safety, and quality. - ✔✔Bioequivalent
✔✔What is not required by the FDA's criteria for equivalency? - ✔✔The drugs contain
identical amounts of the same inactive ingredients.
✔✔What list is generally considered the most reliable source of information on the
therapeutically equivalent drug products? - ✔✔Approved Drug products with therapeutic
equivalence
✔✔Exclusivity gives exclusive ____________, is granted by the FDA and can run
concurrently with a patent or not. - ✔✔Marketing rights
✔✔What is an orange book rating? - ✔✔B
✔✔What is the term for chemical equivalents which when administered in the same
amounts will provide the same biological or physiological availability as measured by
blood and urine levels? - ✔✔Biological equivalents
✔✔What term denotes the dispensing of an unbranded generic product for the product
prescribed? - ✔✔Generic substitution
✔✔What term denotes a drug that is identical or bioequivalent to the originator brand
name drug in dosage form, safety, strength, route, quality, performance, characteristics,
and intended use? - ✔✔Generic
SET A+
✔✔Why is noncompliance a serious public health concern? - ✔✔Increasing medical
care cost.
✔✔Legally bioequivalence of different versions od a drug can vary by up to what? -
✔✔20%
✔✔What is no true about biologies? - ✔✔They do not cause an immune response.
✔✔What are the drugs that attract or bind to cell receptors in order to mimic or enhance
activities by endogenous channel messages? - ✔✔Agonists
✔✔Which term denotes how an API works in the body? - ✔✔Mechanism for action.
✔✔What cements the active and inert components together to maintain cohesive
portions? - ✔✔Binders
✔✔What does the medical abbreviation BID denote? - ✔✔Twice a day.
✔✔What is the medical abbreviation for as needed? - ✔✔PRN
✔✔Which components might cause patients different reactions to brand name and
generic drugs? - ✔✔Differences in inactive ingredients.
✔✔Do all cells have a nucleus? - ✔✔No
✔✔What is the typical relationship between a drugs site of administration and site of
action? - ✔✔They are usually somewhat removed from each other.
✔✔What is CMAX? - ✔✔The peak plasma concentration on a measuring curve.
, ✔✔What is not a main concept in pharmacology? - ✔✔Pharmacoprocesses
✔✔What is not a route of drug administration? - ✔✔Transfugal
✔✔How are intradermal drugs delivered? - ✔✔By injecting under the skin.
✔✔What is an example of intravenous drug delivery? - ✔✔An injection of anesthetic
directly into the bloodstream.
✔✔What are the major organs of the gastrointestinal system? - ✔✔The mouth,
esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, small and large intestines.
✔✔What differentiates exclusivity from a patent? - ✔✔Exclusivity is only granted upon
the drugs FDA approval.
✔✔What is required of an invention for it to be worthy of patent protection? - ✔✔It must
be novel, useful, and not obvious.
✔✔A generic drug is ____________ to the originator brand name drug in dosage,
strength, safety, and quality. - ✔✔Bioequivalent
✔✔What is not required by the FDA's criteria for equivalency? - ✔✔The drugs contain
identical amounts of the same inactive ingredients.
✔✔What list is generally considered the most reliable source of information on the
therapeutically equivalent drug products? - ✔✔Approved Drug products with therapeutic
equivalence
✔✔Exclusivity gives exclusive ____________, is granted by the FDA and can run
concurrently with a patent or not. - ✔✔Marketing rights
✔✔What is an orange book rating? - ✔✔B
✔✔What is the term for chemical equivalents which when administered in the same
amounts will provide the same biological or physiological availability as measured by
blood and urine levels? - ✔✔Biological equivalents
✔✔What term denotes the dispensing of an unbranded generic product for the product
prescribed? - ✔✔Generic substitution
✔✔What term denotes a drug that is identical or bioequivalent to the originator brand
name drug in dosage form, safety, strength, route, quality, performance, characteristics,
and intended use? - ✔✔Generic
