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Mod 5 test
test Thursday 10-29-2009
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Misinformation? | Information and misinformation |
| Medication errors are made by | physicians, pharmacist,nurse& pharmacy technicians,transcribing,dispensing, and administering , medications. |
| Therapeutic duplication | Administraton of two drugs that produce similar effects and side effects. These drugs may belong to the same theraputic class. |
| additive effect | increased drug effect that is produced when a second similiar drug is added to therapy that is greater than the effect that is produced by either drug alone |
| Antagonism | drug-drug interaction that causesedecreased effects. |
| Drug contraindication | Condition under which a drug is not indicated and should not be administerd |
| Drug-diseases contraindications | administration of the drug is not be avoided because it may worsen the patients medical condition |
| drug-drug interaction | Reaction that occurs when a drug are administerd at the same time |
| drug-food interactions | altered drug response that occurs when a drug are administered with certain foods |
| Medication error | error made in the process of prescribing, preparing,dispensing, or administering drug therapy |
| potentiation | Process where one drug, acting at a seperate site a different mechanism of action, increases the effect of another drug yet produces no effect when administerd alone.Food can also potentiate the effects of a drug |
| Synergistic effects | Drug-drug or drug-food interaction between two drugs produces an effect that is greater than would be produced if either drug were adminitered alone. |
| Therapeutic duplication | administering of two drugs that produce similar effects and side effects. These drugs to the same therapeutic class. |
| Mechanisms of Drugs Interactions | abortion, distribution, metabolism, or elimination and result, |
| CDER? | Center for Disease Evaluation and Reserch |
| What Are ADR? | adverse drug reation |
| When asking a question | |
| What are the 5 Miscommunication? | Poor Handwriting, confusion between drugs with similar names, misuse of Zeroes and decimal points, confuions of metric and other dosing Units or Inappropriate Abbreviations |