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What's the most common description of a drug's duration of action? |
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medications that require metabolism to produce their effects |
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How is a drug changed so that it's more easily excreted from the body? |
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changed from lipid soluble to water soluble so that kidneys can easily excrete it |
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What is the primary site of drug metabolism? |
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Which organs receive the highest exposure to absorbed drugs? |
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What is the simplest factor determining drug distribution? |
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amount of blood flow to body tissues |
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Which parenteral route of drug administration produces fastest onset of action? |
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What are the 3 broad categories of routes of drug administration? |
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enteral, topical, parenteral |
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What is the primary pharmacokinetic process determining the onset of drug action? |
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What are the four processes of pharmacokinetics? |
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absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion |
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What does pharmacokinetics focus on? |
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what the body does to drugs after they are administered |
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What is the typical length of exclusivity for a new drug? |
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What are the conditions for which a drug is approved? |
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application of drugs for the purpose of disease prevention and treatment of suffering |
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What is stage 4 of the drug approval process? |
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postmarketing surveillance |
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What was the first comprehensive drug standards publication? |
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U.S. Pharmacopeia in 1820 (USP) |
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What did the Sherley Amendment to the PFDA do? |
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prohibit sale of drugs w/ false therapeutic claims |
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What was the first national law passed to regulate drugs and what did it attempt to do? |
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Drug Importation act (1848)- stop entry of unsafe drugs into U.S. |
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What is the rate/extent to which the active ingredient is absorbed from a drug and becomes available at site of drug action? |
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What are drugs with more than one active generic ingredient? |
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What did the National Formulary (NF) focus on originally? |
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How many phases are there in the drug trial process? |
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What are phases 1,2,3 of clinical trials of a drug focused on? |
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1. safety 2. effectiveness 3. potential drug-drug interactions |
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What was passed in 1992 requiring drug/biologic manufacturers to provide yearly product user fees? |
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What is the key difference between therapeutic and pharmacologic classification of drugs? |
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therapeutic describes what's being treated, pharmacologic describes how drug acts |
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What is a prototype drug? |
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the drug to which all others in a class are compared |
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