Principles of Patient-Centered Care
Exam 1 (Mod00-Mod05) correctly
answered to pass
Role of the pharmacist - correct answer ✔✔Ensuring the patient is educated on medications
and adheres to treatment
Patient-Centered Care - correct answer ✔✔A focus on the education and well-being of the
patient, as well as increasing patient involvement in his/her own treatment.
Pharmacist's Responsibilities - correct answer ✔✔Decrease the number of medication errors,
be a reliable source for patient questions/concerns, and having an open dialog with the patient.
5 Key Elements of Patient-Centered Care - correct answer ✔✔Respect, choice, empowerment,
access and support of information, and patient involvement in health policy.
ADR - correct answer ✔✔Adverse Drug Reaction: "second drug problem in U.S."
PDRM - correct answer ✔✔Preventable Drug Related Morbidity
Why America has a 2nd Drug Problem (3 main reasons) - correct answer ✔✔1. Not enough
patient-centered care, too much product-centered care.
2. Focus is on blame, not prevention.
3. Pressure in the healthcare system to increase volume of prescriptions.
Solution to ADR's/PDRM's (4-Level Framework) - correct answer ✔✔1. Patient-centered
pharmaceutical care
, 2. Pharmaceutical care in microsystems
3. Organizational medication management systems
4. Environment of medication use management
Priorities of Beneficent Action (4 items) - correct answer ✔✔1. Do no harm
2. Prevent harm
3. Remove harm
4. Promote good
ADR (definition and how it is measured) - correct answer ✔✔Def: Unintended negative
outcomes of drug therapy that occur at normal doses.
Measurement: medical record review (audit) and application of PDRM indicators.
Medical Record Review - correct answer ✔✔Used to measure ADR's by going over drug-related
admission (DRA) and PDRA data. "Gold-standard of evaluations"
DRA - correct answer ✔✔Drug-related admission
Number of deaths from ADR's in U.S. hospitals (from Lazarou study) - correct answer
✔✔106,000
DRM - correct answer ✔✔Drug-related morbidity
DRM (definition) - correct answer ✔✔Definition: Outcome of drug-related therapy (DRT) that
produces a toxic effect and does not produced the desired outcome/effect and results in a
problem that is not correctable or requires significant procedure to correct.
DTP - correct answer ✔✔Drug therapy problem
Exam 1 (Mod00-Mod05) correctly
answered to pass
Role of the pharmacist - correct answer ✔✔Ensuring the patient is educated on medications
and adheres to treatment
Patient-Centered Care - correct answer ✔✔A focus on the education and well-being of the
patient, as well as increasing patient involvement in his/her own treatment.
Pharmacist's Responsibilities - correct answer ✔✔Decrease the number of medication errors,
be a reliable source for patient questions/concerns, and having an open dialog with the patient.
5 Key Elements of Patient-Centered Care - correct answer ✔✔Respect, choice, empowerment,
access and support of information, and patient involvement in health policy.
ADR - correct answer ✔✔Adverse Drug Reaction: "second drug problem in U.S."
PDRM - correct answer ✔✔Preventable Drug Related Morbidity
Why America has a 2nd Drug Problem (3 main reasons) - correct answer ✔✔1. Not enough
patient-centered care, too much product-centered care.
2. Focus is on blame, not prevention.
3. Pressure in the healthcare system to increase volume of prescriptions.
Solution to ADR's/PDRM's (4-Level Framework) - correct answer ✔✔1. Patient-centered
pharmaceutical care
, 2. Pharmaceutical care in microsystems
3. Organizational medication management systems
4. Environment of medication use management
Priorities of Beneficent Action (4 items) - correct answer ✔✔1. Do no harm
2. Prevent harm
3. Remove harm
4. Promote good
ADR (definition and how it is measured) - correct answer ✔✔Def: Unintended negative
outcomes of drug therapy that occur at normal doses.
Measurement: medical record review (audit) and application of PDRM indicators.
Medical Record Review - correct answer ✔✔Used to measure ADR's by going over drug-related
admission (DRA) and PDRA data. "Gold-standard of evaluations"
DRA - correct answer ✔✔Drug-related admission
Number of deaths from ADR's in U.S. hospitals (from Lazarou study) - correct answer
✔✔106,000
DRM - correct answer ✔✔Drug-related morbidity
DRM (definition) - correct answer ✔✔Definition: Outcome of drug-related therapy (DRT) that
produces a toxic effect and does not produced the desired outcome/effect and results in a
problem that is not correctable or requires significant procedure to correct.
DTP - correct answer ✔✔Drug therapy problem
