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.

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Dopamine

Health care; Pharmacy

A monoamine neurotransmitter formed in the brain by the decarboxylation of dopa and essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system.

Antimicrobial cycling

Health care; Pharmacy

A predetermined change in an antimicrobial recommendation for empiric therapy of a specific infection at a predetermined time.

Computer package

Health care; Pharmacy

A set of statistical computer programmes for analysing data.

Ethical principles

Health care; Pharmacy

* Concepts that describe the moral standards applied in patient care. * Form the foundation of the philosophy of pharmaceutical care practice. * Include beneficence, non-maleficence, veracity, ...

Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis

Health care; Pharmacy

A multivariate method used to detect significant relationships among variables which are then used to develop predictive models for classifying future subjects.

Direct method of rate standardisation

A method of adjusting rates when comparing two or more populations; it requires knowledge of the specific rates for each category in the populations to be adjusted and the frequencies in at least one ...

Diastolic heart failure

Health care; Pharmacy

A condition caused by increased resistance to the filling of one or both ventricles; this leads to symptoms of congestion from the inappropriate upward shift of the diastolic pressure-volume ...