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Chapt.13 Advanced...
Chapter 13 Advanced Pharmacy
| Automated dispensing system: | A drug dispensing system that is computer or robot based. |
| Blended-dose system: | A drug distribution system that combines a unit-of-use medication package with a non–unit-dose drug distribution system. |
| Central fill pharmacy: | A high-volume pharmacy that fills prescriptions for a number of individual pharmacies. |
| Drug distribution system: | A safe and economical way of distributing a drug. |
| Home health care pharmacy: | The practice of pharmacy that provides medications, home health care products and services, and pharmaceutical care to patients at home. |
| Hospice: | Originally a facility, usually within a hospital, intended to care for the terminally ill, in particular, by providing physical comfort to the patient and emotional support and counseling to the patient and the family. |
| Internet pharmacy: | An established commercial website that enables a patient to obtain medications by way of the Internet. |
| Long-term care: | A range of health and health-related support services provided over an extended period of time. |
| Long-term care pharmacy organization: | An organization involving a licensed professional pharmacy or practice that provides medications and clinical services to long-term care facilities and their residents. |
| Mail-order pharmacy: | A licensed pharmacy that uses the mail or other carriers (e.g., overnight carriers or parcel services) to deliver prescriptions to patients. |
| Modified unit-dose system: | A drug distribution system that combines unit-dose medications that are “blister” packaged onto a multiple-dose card; also known as a blister card, punch card, or bingo card. |
| Modular cassette: | These cassettes contain either one-week or two-week medication strips that also contain reserve doses in a narrow plastic slide-tray design. |
| Multiple medication package: | A medication package in which all medications to be given at a specific time of a given day are packaged together; also known as an adherence package or pouch package. |
| Nuclear pharmacy: | A pharmacy that is specially licensed to work with radioactive materials, previously called radiopharmacy. |
| Parenteral nutrition: | A combination of amino acids, dextrose, fats, vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, and water administered intravenously. |
| Radiopharmaceutical: | A drug that is or has been made to be radioactive. Although a few radiopharmaceuticals are used to treat diseases (e.g., radioactive iodine), most are used as diagnostic agents. |
| Reagent kit: | Vials containing particular compounds, usually in freeze-dried form, that are used in nuclear pharmacy. |
| Specialty mail-order pharmacy: | A mail-order pharmacy that concentrates on specific areas of the prescription drug market. |
| Starter kit: | A group of medications provided to a hospice patient by the hospice pharmacy to provide a “start” in treatment for most urgent problems that can develop during the last days or weeks of life. |
| Unit-dose system: | A drug distribution system that provides medication in its final unit of use form. |
| Drug distribution systems: | Unit-dose system, modified unit-dose, blended unit-dose, and automated dispensing. |
| Starter kits: | It can be used to provide care for urgent problems. |
Created by:
Scarlett Emerson
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