Intro to Pharm Ch. % correct questions and answers

True or False Mail service pharmacies use automated processing for schedule 2 narcotics oral solids. False True or False All internet or cyber-pharmacies are illegal. False True or False Medications that are dispensed in their own package are dispensed from the manual area of mail service pharmacies. True When patients are in the hospital or reside in a long-term care facility, they are referred to as _____. inpatients A collaborative drug therapy agreement is a voluntary written agreement between a _____ and a prescriber that permits the ability to initiate or modify drug therapy or order and perform laboratory test. pharmacist About what percentage of the U.S. population has diabetes? 8% What percentage of mail service pharmacy prescriptions are for controlled substances? 3% to 5% When a clinical decision needs to be made regarding how to handle a prescription with an appropriate dose or potential drug interaction, the _____ is the only person who should ever make those decisions. pharmacist What do some mail service pharmacies do to improve patient compliance? Call patients who have not ordered refills or who have refills coming due. _____ pharmacies can be regional or national or have stores spread out all over the country. Chain _____ pharmacies consist of one to four stores owned and operated by an individual pharmacist or group of individuals. independent The responsibilities of the pharmacy technician may include _____. collecting information from patients Examples of ambulatory care setting include _____. physicians' offices A physician calls the pharmacy with a new prescription. The pharmacy technician answers the phone. What should the pharmacy technician do? get the pharmacist to the phone After chain drug stores, what distribution channel has the next highest volume of prescription drug sales? mail service pharmacies _____ involves making a medication into another form than what is available Compounding What type of pharmacy service was developed in response to payers' demands for more clinical management of complex disease states such as rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis C, and cancer? specialty pharmacies Community pharmacy is an example of _____. ambulatory care _____ pharmacies accept new prescriptions from patients through the mail, dispense the prescriptions, and send them back through the mail to the patients. Mail order One reason the number of prescriptions is rising is because of _____. the aging of the population