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Glossary Appendix C
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absoption | The amount of medication that enters the bloodstream, or systemic circulation |
| Accreditation | The process of granting recognition or vouhcing for compliance with established criteria |
| Adjudication | Prescription claims adjudication refers to the determination of the insurer's payment after the member's insurance benefits are applieed to a medical claim |
| Ambulatory Pharmacy | A oharmacy generally located within, or in close proximity to a clinic, hospital, or medical center that provides medication services to ambulatory patients |
| Aseptic technique | The technique and procedures designed to prevent contamination of drugs, packaging, equipment, or supplies by micro-organisms during preparation |
| Automated dispensing technology | Electronic storage cabinets or robotics that secure medications and dispense them to nurses or other caregivers when needed |
| Automated medication dispensing device | A drug storage device or cabinet that contains an inventory of medications that are electronically dispensed so they may be administered to patients in a controlled manner |
| Average wholesale price (AWP) | A commonly used benchmark for billing drugs that are reimbursed in the community pharmacy setting, The AWP for a drug is set by the manufacturer of the drug |
| Beyond-use labeling | A date that is given to a medcation noting when it should no longer be used (expiration date) |
| Bioavailability | The ercentage of an administered dose of a medication that reaches the blood-stream |
| Brand-name drug | A drug that is coverev by a patent and is therefore only available from a single manufacturer |
| Buccal | A solid edication dosage form that is placed in the pocket between the cheek and gum and absorbed through the cheek into the bloodstream |
| Centralized dispensing automation | Technology that assists in the selectons and dispensing of drug products that aare located in a central location, such as the pharmacy, and that can include robotics and carousels that use bar code scanning to select and label drug products for patients |
| Certification | A voluntary process by which a nongovernmental agency or association grants recognition to an individual who has met cetain predetermined qualifications sepcified by that agency or associtaion. |
| Chain of pharmacy | A pharmacy that is part of a large number of corporately owned pharmacies that use the same name and carry similarly branded OTC products |
| Community pharmacy | Generally a stand-alone pharmacy locate within a community that provides medication services to ambulatory patients |
| Compounding | Usualy takes place in pharmacy and includes the preparation, mixing, packaging, and labeling of a small quantity of a drug based on a practitioner's prescription or medication order for a specific patient |
| Conrolled substances | Drugs or chemicl substaces whose possession and use are regulation under the Federal Controlled substance laws and regulations. Controlled substances are subject to stricter controls than other prescription and non-prescription drugs. |
| Copayment (copay) | The portion of the cost of a prescription that the patient is responsible for paying when a part of the cost is covered by a third-party payer |
| Hazardous material | Any material that poses a risk to people, animals, property, or the environment. |
| Health Insurance Portablilty and Accountabilty Act (HIPAA) | Federal legislation enacted to establish guidelins for the protection of patients' private health infromation |
| Hospita formulary | An approved list of medications that are routinely stocked in the hospital pharmacy to treat the types of patients the hospital typically serves |
| Inhalant | A fine powder or solution of a drug delivered as a mist through the muth into the respiratory tract |
| Intradiac | Injected directly into the heart muscle |
| Intradermal | Injected into the top layers of the skin |
| Intramusculare | Injected directly into a large muscle mass, such as the upper arm, thigh, or buttock, and absorbed from the muscle tissue into the bloodstream |
| Intrchecal | Injected into the space around the spinal cord |
| Intravenous | Injected directly into a vein and therefore immediately avaible to act in the body |
| Legend drug | A drug that is required by the federal law to be dispensed by prescripton only. It is the older term for drugs that are now identified as " Rx Only" |
| Licensure | The process by which an agency of the government grants permission to an individual to engage in a given occupation upon finding that the applicant has attained a degree of ompetency necessary to ensure that public health, safety,and welfare is protected |
| Lozenge | A hard, disk-shape solid medication dosage form that contains medication in a sugar base, which is released as the lozenge is held in the mouth and sucked |
| Mail-order Pharmacy | A pharmacy the functions like a ware house, with pharmacists and technicains who dispense prescriptions that are mailed to the patients residence. |
| Material safety data sheets | Informtion sheets providded by a manufacturer for chemicals or drugs that may be hazardous in the workplace |
| Medication administration record (MAR) | A component of the paper patient medical record in which nurses and other healthcare providers document times and dates when a medication was administered to the patient |
| Medication error | Any error ocurring in the medication use process |
| Medication order | A written, electonic, telephone, or verbal request for a patient medication in an inpatient settings. |
| Medication therapy management (MTM) | A service or qroup of services that optimize therapeutic outcomes for a patient. |
| National Drug Code (NDC) Number | A unique number assigned to each dru, strength, and package size for the purpose of identification. |
| Ointment | A semisolid medication dosage form, applied to the skin or mucous membranes, which lubricates and softens or is used as a base for drug delivery |
| Over-the-Counter (OTC) drugs | Drugs that are avaible without a presription |
| Parenteral | A route of medication administration that bypassess the gastrointestinal tract, such as intravenous, intramuscular, or subcuntaneous administration. |
| Parent counseling | The act of education a patient, by a pharmacist, regarding the proper use of a prescribed drug, at the time of dispensing |
| Patient Profile | A list of information about a patient, includin name, identification number, DOB, sex, height, weight, lab values, admitting and secodnary diagnoses, room and bed number, names of admitting and consulting physicains, allergies, medical history,and etc. |
| Pharmacist | A health care professional licensed by the state to engage inthe patactice of pharmacy |
| Pharmacy satellite | A physical space located in or near a patient care area that can provide a variety of distributive and clinic services. |
| Practice of Pharmacy | The practice of pharmacy is regulated by each state throught the pharmaacy laws and regulations |
| Prescription | The written or verbal authorization, by an authorized prescribe, for the use of a particular pharmceutical agent for an individual patient. |
| Primary prescription label | A label, affixed toa dispensed drug product, that containf leglly reuqired information, including pharmacy name and address, patient name, prescriber name, drug name, directions for use, and etc. |
| Professional | A person who practices an occupation or vocation that requires advanced specialized trainging. |
| Professionalism | actively demonstrating the attitudes, qualities and behaviores of a professional while performing the duties of one's profession |
| Purchase order | a document executed by a purchaser and forwarded to a supplier that is considered a legal offer to buy products or services. |
| Registration | The rocess f making a list or being enrolled in an existing list. |
| STAT | Abbreviation of the Latin word statim, meaning immediately; commonly used on medcation orders to indicate the need for the drug right away |
| Stock rotaton | placing the products that will expire the soonest int he front of the shelf or bin and those with late experiation dates behind them |
| Subcutaneous | Depending in the tissue just under the skin |
| Sublingual | Placed under the tongue, where it dissolvess and it absorbed into the bloodstream. |
| Suspension | A mixture of fine particles of an undissolved solid spread throughut a liquid or, less commonly, a gas |
| Technicain | An individual skilled in the practical or mechanical aspects of a profession. They help assits the pharmaicists by performing routine, day-to-day functions that don't have to be checked by the pharmacist. |
| Topical | Applied to the skin, mucous membranes, or ther external parts of the body, such as fingernails, toenails, and hair |
| Transdermal | Through the skin; percutneous |
| Unit dose distrubtion system | A system that provides all or most medications to patints in an unit dose ready-to-administer form |
| Unit-does package | A non-reusable container designed to hold a quantity of drug to be administered as a single dose. |
| Wholesaler | A large-scale warehouse with drugs and supplieas located in various geograhic egoins that exist to help bring pharmaceutical products closer to the market. |
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