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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Total quality management (TQM)

Health care; Pharmacy

A management concept dealing with the implementation of continuous quality improvement.

Hypercoagulable state

Health care; Pharmacy

A disorder or state of excessive or frequent thrombus formation; also known as thrombophilia.

Investigational new drug (IND)

A drug, antibiotic, or biologic that is used in a clinical investigation. The label of an investigational drug must bear the statement: "Caution: New Drug—Limited by Federal (or United States) law ...

Improved

Health care; Pharmacy

* One of the standard terms for describing the outcome status of a patient's medical condition being treated with pharmacotherapy. * Adequate progress is being made toward achieving the goals of ...

Overview

Health care; Pharmacy

A general term for a summary of the literature. Includes nonsystematic (narrative), systematic (qualitative), and qualitative (meta-analyses) reviews.

Independent variable

Health care; Pharmacy

A factor that is suspected to influence the outcome of an analytic study.

Publication bias

Health care; Pharmacy

A distortion in conclusions derived from published studies because of the selective factors associated with the likelihood of publication, including whether the findings were positive and ...