NAPSRX CNPR EXAM (REVISED 18TH
EDITION) WITH QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.
what does a STAT order mean? - ANS a drug needed immediately and given only once
what information does the overdosage section of the labeling provide? - ANS signs,
symptoms and treatment of acute overdoses
types of drug-drug interactions: - ANS duplication, opposition (antagonism) and
alteration (p.51)
tolerance vs resistance - ANS 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) - ANS 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 - ANS -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 - ANS passive diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active
transport, and pinocytosis (p. 95)
potency vs efficacy - ANS 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 - ANS phases I-IV (P. 124-126)
Key Parts Of A Clinical Paper (5) - ANS Abstract, Introduction, methods, results,
discussion/conclusions (p. 128-129)
reliability vs validity - ANS reliability = consistency and validity = accuracy
(p. 138; 143)
sampling error vs selection bias - ANS sampling error is unbiased and is randomly
chosen from the population.
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