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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Patient-centered

Health care; Pharmacy

* Care that places the patient's needs as the focus of the clinician's work. * Care that maintains the patient as a "holistic" being and does not fragment the patient into disease groups, organ ...

Observation bias

Health care; Pharmacy

A flaw in measuring exposure or outcome data that results in systematic differences in the quality of information gathered for study and comparison groups. See also Selection bias.

Information bias

Health care; Pharmacy

A flaw in measuring exposure or outcome data that results in systematic differences in the quality of information gathered for study and comparison groups. See also Selection bias.

Quality assessment and assurance committee

Health care; Pharmacy

A committee found in long-term care facilities to evaluate quality of care, including drug usage evaluation.

Inulin

Health care; Pharmacy

A fructose polysaccharide that is filtered by the glomerulus; its clearance is often used as an index of GFR.

C-reactive protein

Health care; Pharmacy

An endogenous marker released by the body in response to inflammation.

Cross-sectional study

Health care; Pharmacy

An analytic investigation in which subjects are sampled at a fixed point or period of time, and the associations between the concurrent presence or absence of risk factors and diseases are then ...