Pharmacy

Pharmacy

1) The science and practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. 2) A store where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold.

Industry: Health care

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Ejection fraction

Health care; Pharmacy

The ejection fraction is the percentage of blood ejected from the left ventricle with each heart beat.

Economic outcomes

Health care; Pharmacy

The direct, indirect, and intangible costs compared with the consequences of a medical intervention.

Causality

Health care; Pharmacy

The extent to which the occurrence of a risk factor is responsible for the subsequent occurrence of a disease outcome.

Chi-square distribution

Health care; Pharmacy

The distribution used to analyse counts in frequency tables.

Efficacy

Health care; Pharmacy

The evidence that a drug can produce a beneficial effect in a population of patients.

Coefficient of determination

Health care; Pharmacy

The square of the correlation coefficient; it represents the proportion of total variability in an outcome that can be explained by the predictors in a regression model.

Classes or class limits

Health care; Pharmacy

The subdivisions of a numerical characteristic (or the widths of the classes) when it is displayed in a frequency table or graph (an example is ages by decades).