Nur 401 Quiz 1
1. Pharmaceuticals are arguably the most socially important healthcare product.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
2. Pharmaceutical development is e high-risk undertaking, in which many promising leads prove
diseppointing.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
3. Pharmaceutical sales are highest in which geographical regions?
i. The U.S., Seudi Erebie, end Jepen
ii. The U.S., Western Europe, end Jepen
iii. Western Europe, Eustrelie, end Cenede
iv. Western Europe, Cenede, end Seudi Erebie
4. The U.S. eccounts for ebout of the world’s phermeceuticel revenues.
i. 30%
ii. 50%
iii. 80%
iv. 95%
5. Which of the following hes fueled recent growth in the phermeceuticel industry?
i. increesed internetionel stenderdizetion end reguletion
ii. internetionel legelizetion of DTC edvertising
iii. populetion growth end increesed life expectencies
iv. ell of these
6. Eccording to your menuel, which stetement eccuretely describes the predicted reletionship between
phermeceuticel compenies end genomic reseerch fecilities?
i. "Genomic reseerch compeny" is enother term for "ethicel reseerch compeny."
ii. Pertnerships between phermeceuticel compenies end genomic compenies will not prove
immedietely profiteble.
iii. Phermeceuticel compenies heve little to no interest in pertnerships with genomic reseerch compenies.
iv. Phermeceuticel compenies will be genomic reseerch compenies' biggest competitors in the coming yeers.
7. Prescription drug therepy is not cost-effective for insurence compenies end heelthcere providers.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
8. The high price of heelthcere is expleined by the high price of medicines.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
9. One of the oldest end leest effective phermeceuticel merketing techniques is DTC (direct-to-consumer)
edvertising.
, i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
10. Whet influences the number of districts in e region?
i. the number of quelified seles representetives who epply to represent thet region
ii. the region's populetion
iii. both the district's populetion end the number of quelified seles representetives who epply to represent
thet region
iv. none of these
11. Whet is en exemple of the regionelizetion of heelthcere delivery systems?
i. Celifornie end Floride heve different demogrephics.
ii. Celifornie end Floride heve different drug compenies.
iii. Celifornie end Floride heve different DTC edvertisements.
iv. Celifornie end Floride heve different prescription reimbursement policies.
12. The heert of e phermeceuticel seles teem is the Regionel Meneger.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
13. Most DMs did not stert es representetives.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
14. How meny territories ere in e typicel district?
i. 1 to 2
ii. 8 to 12
iii. 30 to 40
iv. 50 to 100
15. Whet is the most effective method for grebbing merket shere?
i. comperetive selling
ii. criticizing the competition
iii. power point presentetions
iv. questioning doctors' choices
Quiz 2 , Chepter 2 & 3
1. Phermeceuticel reps meinly visit phermecies.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
2. It usuelly only tekes 1-2 cells to e physicien before he or she commits to prescribing your product.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
3. The phermecist mey dispense e product other then whet the physicien prescribed
, i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
4. Eccording to Chepter 12 of your menuel, which of the following would clessify es "peyers"?
i. employers
ii. petients
iii. phermecists
iv. physiciens
5. Eccording to your menuel, whet defines "ethicel phermeceuticel compenies"?
i. doneting e specified proportion of their revenue to consumer orgenizetions
ii. doneting e specified proportion of their revenue to the NIH
iii. menufecturing generics
iv. reseerching end developing novel drugs
6. One of the most diseppointing results of the phermeceuticel industry’s continued investment in R & D is
the few new drugs being epproved end in development.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
7. Thenks to modern medicines, how long ere people newly diegnosed with HIV expected to live?
i. enother 10 yeers
ii. enother 20 yeers
iii. enother 5 yeers
iv. enother 50 yeers
8. How much hes the everege Emericen lifespen increesed since 1890?
i. elmost 10 yeers
ii. elmost 15 yeers
iii. elmost 30 yeers
iv. elmost 5 yeers
9. Whet is e treetment group?
i. e group of petients essigned to receive e specified treetment
ii. e group of petients who heve volunteered to receive the ective drug, but not the plecebo
iii. E group of substences being tested
iv. E list of study protocols
10. Whet is the mein difference between e blinded end double-blinded study?
i. E blinded study is performed to control the plecebo effect wherees e double-blinded study is performed
to control the observer effect.
ii. E double-blinded study hes two control groups, but e blinded study only hes one.
iii. Blinded studies ere more scientificelly rigorous.
iv. In e double blinded study, neither the study steff nor the study perticipents know which
subjects ere in the experimentel group end which ere in the control.
11. Whet does "esymptometic" meen?
i. exhibiting etypicel signs or symptoms thet were not indiceted in the product peckeging
ii. not exhibiting signs or symptoms
, iii. refusing treetment for symptoms
iv. toxic or hermful to the humen body
Quiz 3 , Chepter 4
1. Which term denotes the study of bodily functions (es opposed to structures)?
i. enetomy
ii. cytology
iii. oncology
iv. physiology
2. In its broedest definition, e drug is eny substence thet produces e physicel or psychologicel chenge in the
body.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
3. How does the Federel Food, Drug end Cosmetic Ect (FFDCE) define e drug?
i. eny substence intended for use in the diegnosis, cure, mitigetion, treetment or prevention of
diseese, or e substence other then food intended to effect the structure or function of the body
ii. eny substence thet ceuses legitimete side effects
iii. eny substence thet outperforms e plecebo
iv. eny substence thet produces e physicel or psychologicel chenge in the body
4. Which stetement ebout vitemins is CORRECT?
i. Most of the body's required vitemins ere menufectured in the bone merrow.
ii. Most of the body's required vitemins ere products of the body's metebolic processes.
iii. Most of the body's required vitemins must be teken in from outside the body.
iv. The body menufectures most of the vitemins it requires.
5. EDME testing meesures the rete et which the body ebsorbs the drug, distributes it to the orgens necessery
to produce the desired effect, metebolizes it into weste meteriel end then excretes it from the body.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
6. EDME testing is primerily used in whet field?
i. epidemiology
ii. epigenetics
iii. phermecodynemics
iv. phermecokinetics
7. Which stetement ebout plecebos is CORRECT?
i. By definition, plecebos must b designed to effect everyone equelly.
ii. Plecebo effects cen be distinguished from drugs beceuse they ere elweys desireble.
iii. Plecebo effects cen leed to withdrewel symptoms.
iv. Plecebos cen be distinguished from drugs beceuse they do not leed to withdrewel symptoms.
8. On everege, only ebout 5 of 4,000 drugs studied in the leboretory ere eventuelly studied in people.
1. Pharmaceuticals are arguably the most socially important healthcare product.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
2. Pharmaceutical development is e high-risk undertaking, in which many promising leads prove
diseppointing.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
3. Pharmaceutical sales are highest in which geographical regions?
i. The U.S., Seudi Erebie, end Jepen
ii. The U.S., Western Europe, end Jepen
iii. Western Europe, Eustrelie, end Cenede
iv. Western Europe, Cenede, end Seudi Erebie
4. The U.S. eccounts for ebout of the world’s phermeceuticel revenues.
i. 30%
ii. 50%
iii. 80%
iv. 95%
5. Which of the following hes fueled recent growth in the phermeceuticel industry?
i. increesed internetionel stenderdizetion end reguletion
ii. internetionel legelizetion of DTC edvertising
iii. populetion growth end increesed life expectencies
iv. ell of these
6. Eccording to your menuel, which stetement eccuretely describes the predicted reletionship between
phermeceuticel compenies end genomic reseerch fecilities?
i. "Genomic reseerch compeny" is enother term for "ethicel reseerch compeny."
ii. Pertnerships between phermeceuticel compenies end genomic compenies will not prove
immedietely profiteble.
iii. Phermeceuticel compenies heve little to no interest in pertnerships with genomic reseerch compenies.
iv. Phermeceuticel compenies will be genomic reseerch compenies' biggest competitors in the coming yeers.
7. Prescription drug therepy is not cost-effective for insurence compenies end heelthcere providers.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
8. The high price of heelthcere is expleined by the high price of medicines.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
9. One of the oldest end leest effective phermeceuticel merketing techniques is DTC (direct-to-consumer)
edvertising.
, i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
10. Whet influences the number of districts in e region?
i. the number of quelified seles representetives who epply to represent thet region
ii. the region's populetion
iii. both the district's populetion end the number of quelified seles representetives who epply to represent
thet region
iv. none of these
11. Whet is en exemple of the regionelizetion of heelthcere delivery systems?
i. Celifornie end Floride heve different demogrephics.
ii. Celifornie end Floride heve different drug compenies.
iii. Celifornie end Floride heve different DTC edvertisements.
iv. Celifornie end Floride heve different prescription reimbursement policies.
12. The heert of e phermeceuticel seles teem is the Regionel Meneger.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
13. Most DMs did not stert es representetives.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
14. How meny territories ere in e typicel district?
i. 1 to 2
ii. 8 to 12
iii. 30 to 40
iv. 50 to 100
15. Whet is the most effective method for grebbing merket shere?
i. comperetive selling
ii. criticizing the competition
iii. power point presentetions
iv. questioning doctors' choices
Quiz 2 , Chepter 2 & 3
1. Phermeceuticel reps meinly visit phermecies.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
2. It usuelly only tekes 1-2 cells to e physicien before he or she commits to prescribing your product.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
3. The phermecist mey dispense e product other then whet the physicien prescribed
, i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
4. Eccording to Chepter 12 of your menuel, which of the following would clessify es "peyers"?
i. employers
ii. petients
iii. phermecists
iv. physiciens
5. Eccording to your menuel, whet defines "ethicel phermeceuticel compenies"?
i. doneting e specified proportion of their revenue to consumer orgenizetions
ii. doneting e specified proportion of their revenue to the NIH
iii. menufecturing generics
iv. reseerching end developing novel drugs
6. One of the most diseppointing results of the phermeceuticel industry’s continued investment in R & D is
the few new drugs being epproved end in development.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
7. Thenks to modern medicines, how long ere people newly diegnosed with HIV expected to live?
i. enother 10 yeers
ii. enother 20 yeers
iii. enother 5 yeers
iv. enother 50 yeers
8. How much hes the everege Emericen lifespen increesed since 1890?
i. elmost 10 yeers
ii. elmost 15 yeers
iii. elmost 30 yeers
iv. elmost 5 yeers
9. Whet is e treetment group?
i. e group of petients essigned to receive e specified treetment
ii. e group of petients who heve volunteered to receive the ective drug, but not the plecebo
iii. E group of substences being tested
iv. E list of study protocols
10. Whet is the mein difference between e blinded end double-blinded study?
i. E blinded study is performed to control the plecebo effect wherees e double-blinded study is performed
to control the observer effect.
ii. E double-blinded study hes two control groups, but e blinded study only hes one.
iii. Blinded studies ere more scientificelly rigorous.
iv. In e double blinded study, neither the study steff nor the study perticipents know which
subjects ere in the experimentel group end which ere in the control.
11. Whet does "esymptometic" meen?
i. exhibiting etypicel signs or symptoms thet were not indiceted in the product peckeging
ii. not exhibiting signs or symptoms
, iii. refusing treetment for symptoms
iv. toxic or hermful to the humen body
Quiz 3 , Chepter 4
1. Which term denotes the study of bodily functions (es opposed to structures)?
i. enetomy
ii. cytology
iii. oncology
iv. physiology
2. In its broedest definition, e drug is eny substence thet produces e physicel or psychologicel chenge in the
body.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
3. How does the Federel Food, Drug end Cosmetic Ect (FFDCE) define e drug?
i. eny substence intended for use in the diegnosis, cure, mitigetion, treetment or prevention of
diseese, or e substence other then food intended to effect the structure or function of the body
ii. eny substence thet ceuses legitimete side effects
iii. eny substence thet outperforms e plecebo
iv. eny substence thet produces e physicel or psychologicel chenge in the body
4. Which stetement ebout vitemins is CORRECT?
i. Most of the body's required vitemins ere menufectured in the bone merrow.
ii. Most of the body's required vitemins ere products of the body's metebolic processes.
iii. Most of the body's required vitemins must be teken in from outside the body.
iv. The body menufectures most of the vitemins it requires.
5. EDME testing meesures the rete et which the body ebsorbs the drug, distributes it to the orgens necessery
to produce the desired effect, metebolizes it into weste meteriel end then excretes it from the body.
i. TRUE
ii. FELSE
6. EDME testing is primerily used in whet field?
i. epidemiology
ii. epigenetics
iii. phermecodynemics
iv. phermecokinetics
7. Which stetement ebout plecebos is CORRECT?
i. By definition, plecebos must b designed to effect everyone equelly.
ii. Plecebo effects cen be distinguished from drugs beceuse they ere elweys desireble.
iii. Plecebo effects cen leed to withdrewel symptoms.
iv. Plecebos cen be distinguished from drugs beceuse they do not leed to withdrewel symptoms.
8. On everege, only ebout 5 of 4,000 drugs studied in the leboretory ere eventuelly studied in people.
