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WALGREENS PTCB Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: strength, 🗹🗹: is the amount of drug contained in a specified unit
Q: dose or dosage, 🗹🗹: is the quantity if a drug taken by a patient
Q: dosage regimen, 🗹🗹: refers to the schedule of medication administration
Q: pharmacology, 🗹🗹: is the science that deal with the origin, nature, chemistry,
effects and uses of drugs
Q: trade and proprietary (trademark), 🗹🗹: refer to the manufacturer's brand name
for a particular drug
Q: generic and nonproprietary, 🗹🗹: refer to a drug name not protected by a
trademark, which is usually a drug's chemical name
Q: Compounding, 🗹🗹: is the act or process of combining two or more drug products
or chemicals into a single preparation
Q: Drug interactions, 🗹🗹: occur when one drug is affected in some way by the
presence of another drug in the body
Q: route of administration, 🗹🗹: is the way the drug gets into the body
Q: therapeutic equivalence, 🗹🗹: refers to the process certifying that a generic drug
has the same active ingredients, dosage form, standards for purity & quality, standards
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for manufacturing & that the same amount of drug is absorbed in the body over the
same time period as the brand name drug
Q: who determines if a drug is therapeutically equivalent?, 🗹🗹: FDA (Orange book)
Q: Drug-Drug interaction, 🗹🗹: occurs when the presence of one drug decreases or
increases the actions of another drug that is administered concurrently
Q: Drug-disease interaction, 🗹🗹: a patients disease affects a drug's action or the
drug worsens the disease
Q: Drug-dietary interaction, 🗹🗹: A dietary supplement interacts with the drug
Q: Drug-Laboratory interaction, 🗹🗹: A drug affects a patient's laboratory test
Q: Drug-nutrient interaction, 🗹🗹: A nutrient interacts with a drug or the drug affects
nutrient levels
Q: Drug indication, 🗹🗹: Is the reason the agent is prescribed for a patient, the
purpose of a medication's use for self-treatment or the use of the medication to treat a
particular disease
Q: Adverse effect, 🗹🗹: is a harmful or undesirable effect that happens to a patient
and is caused by the administration of a medication
Q: Drug alleries, 🗹🗹: occur when the body's immune system has an abnormal
reaction to a medication
Q: Contraindication, 🗹🗹: is a reason why a specific drug either can't be used or
should be used only with caution
WALGREENS PTCB Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: strength, 🗹🗹: is the amount of drug contained in a specified unit
Q: dose or dosage, 🗹🗹: is the quantity if a drug taken by a patient
Q: dosage regimen, 🗹🗹: refers to the schedule of medication administration
Q: pharmacology, 🗹🗹: is the science that deal with the origin, nature, chemistry,
effects and uses of drugs
Q: trade and proprietary (trademark), 🗹🗹: refer to the manufacturer's brand name
for a particular drug
Q: generic and nonproprietary, 🗹🗹: refer to a drug name not protected by a
trademark, which is usually a drug's chemical name
Q: Compounding, 🗹🗹: is the act or process of combining two or more drug products
or chemicals into a single preparation
Q: Drug interactions, 🗹🗹: occur when one drug is affected in some way by the
presence of another drug in the body
Q: route of administration, 🗹🗹: is the way the drug gets into the body
Q: therapeutic equivalence, 🗹🗹: refers to the process certifying that a generic drug
has the same active ingredients, dosage form, standards for purity & quality, standards
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for manufacturing & that the same amount of drug is absorbed in the body over the
same time period as the brand name drug
Q: who determines if a drug is therapeutically equivalent?, 🗹🗹: FDA (Orange book)
Q: Drug-Drug interaction, 🗹🗹: occurs when the presence of one drug decreases or
increases the actions of another drug that is administered concurrently
Q: Drug-disease interaction, 🗹🗹: a patients disease affects a drug's action or the
drug worsens the disease
Q: Drug-dietary interaction, 🗹🗹: A dietary supplement interacts with the drug
Q: Drug-Laboratory interaction, 🗹🗹: A drug affects a patient's laboratory test
Q: Drug-nutrient interaction, 🗹🗹: A nutrient interacts with a drug or the drug affects
nutrient levels
Q: Drug indication, 🗹🗹: Is the reason the agent is prescribed for a patient, the
purpose of a medication's use for self-treatment or the use of the medication to treat a
particular disease
Q: Adverse effect, 🗹🗹: is a harmful or undesirable effect that happens to a patient
and is caused by the administration of a medication
Q: Drug alleries, 🗹🗹: occur when the body's immune system has an abnormal
reaction to a medication
Q: Contraindication, 🗹🗹: is a reason why a specific drug either can't be used or
should be used only with caution
