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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Nonrandomized trial

Health care; Pharmacy

A clinical trial in which subjects are assigned to treatments on other than a randomised basis. It is subject to several biases.

Notifiable disease

Health care; Pharmacy

A disease for which regular, frequent, and timely information on individual cases is considered necessary for the prevention and control of the disease.

Worsened

Health care; Pharmacy

* One of the standard terms for describing the outcome status of a patient's medical condition being treated with pharmacotherapy. * There has been a decline in health status while receiving the ...

Representative population

Health care; Pharmacy

(or sample) A population or sample that is similar in important ways to the population to which the findings of a study are generalized.

Iatrogenesis or iatrogenic disease

Health care; Pharmacy

A disease produced as a consequence of medical or surgical treatment.

* A standard set of activities undertaken by all patient care practitioners. * The systematic activities that occur when a practitioner provides pharmaceutical care to a patient, consisting of the ...

Medication experience

Health care; Pharmacy

* The sum of all the events in a patient's lifetime that relate to drug therapy. * The patient's personal experience with medications. * The lived experience that includes a patient's attitudes, ...