NAPSRX CNPR Exam (Revised 18th Edition) Questions And Answers Latest Top Score.

NAPSRX CNPR Exam (Revised 18th Edition) Questions And Answers Latest Top Score. what does a STAT order mean? - correct answer. a drug needed immediately and given only once what information does the overdosage section of the labeling provide? - correct answer. signs, symptoms and treatment of acute overdoses types of drug-drug interactions: - correct answer. duplication, opposition (antagonism) and alteration (p.51) tolerance vs resistance - correct answer. tolerance is the diminished response to a drug; resistance is the cells ability to resist the effects of the drug on them. abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) - correct answer. the process by which applicants must scientifically demonstrate to the FDA that their generic product is bioequivalent to or performs in the same way as the innovator drug, no duplicate testing (p. 75) the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 - correct answer. -A.K.A. Drug Price Competition and Patent Restoration Act -made it easier to bring generic drugs to the market by requiring the FDA to only look at bioavailability studies in order to approve an ANDA. -gave protection to the research based manufacturers by providing a 30-month automatic cooling off period once an ANDA is challenged for patent infringement (p. 75) four basic transport mechanisms - correct answer. passive diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, and pinocytosis (p. 95) potency vs efficacy - correct answer. potency: amount of drug necessary to produce desired effect efficacy: magnitude of maximal response that can be received from a drug *efficacy is almost always more important that potency* (p. 106) the four phases of clinical trials - correct answer. phases I-IV (P. 124-126) Key Parts Of A Clinical Paper (5) - correct answer. Abstract, Introduction, methods, results, discussion/conclusions (p. 128-129) reliability vs validity - correct answer. reliability = consistency and validity = accuracy (p. 138; 143) sampling error vs selection bias - correct answer. sampling error is unbiased and is randomly chosen from the population. selection bias is when the sample was specifically chosen based on particular characteristics (p.142-143) independent vs dependent variable - correct answer. An independent variable is the one that influences the variation. A dependent variable is the variable being tested and measured in a scientific experiment (the result of applying the independent variable). Drug Utilization Review (DUR) programs - correct answer. -involve retrospective monitoring of physicians' prescribing patterns -more than 90% of HMOs require DURs -nowadays mostly monitors cost savings (p. 181)