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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Drug information

Health care; Pharmacy

The provision of unbiased, well-referenced, and critically evaluated information on any aspect of pharmacy practice.

Attack rate

Health care; Pharmacy

The proportion of persons within a population who develop a particular outcome within a specified period of time.

Case fatality

Health care; Pharmacy

The proportion of persons with a particular disease who die from that disease within a specified period of time.

Estimation

Health care; Pharmacy

The process of using information from a sample to draw conclusions about the values of parameters in a population.

Erythropoiesis

Health care; Pharmacy

The production of erythrocytes (red blood cells) within the bone marrow.

Confidence interval (CI)

Health care; Pharmacy

A measurement of the variability of study data. The interval computed from sample data that has a given probability that the unknown parameter, such as the mean or proportion, is contained within ...

Botulism

Health care; Pharmacy

A muscle-paralyzing disease caused by a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Natural occurrence typically results from consumption of contaminated food, but the toxin is now ...