BCPS EXAM PREP QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
AHEAD
●● Excerpta Medica
Answer: Comprehensive data base w/ > 7000 journals from 74
countries. Articles appears w/in 10 days of publication
More comprensive than Medline
●● International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Answer: 750 journals, including foreign. Include all aspects of pharmacy
●● Iowa Drug Information Service
Answer: 200 medical and pharmacy journals (primarily from US),
updated monthly
Not good for new articles
●● The Clin-Alert database
Answer: Contains 100 med and pharm journals focused on ADEs, DDI,
and medical-legal issues.
,Used primarily to look up ADE (especially recent reports)
●● 3 components of Meaningful Use
Answer: 1. EHR in meaningful manner (e prescribe)
2. electronic exchange of helath info to improve quality
3. Submit quality and other measures
●● Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Answer: patient centered home model (PCMH) & Accountable Care
Organiztion (ACO)
abbrev pathway for biosimilars
●● Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
Answer: a network of doctors and hospitals that shares responsibility for
managing the quality and cost of care provided to a group of patients
●● HEDIS measures have been established for:
Answer: Asthma
BB tx after MI
HTN
DM
breast CA screening
, antidepressants
adolescent/child immunization and body wt assessment
●● FDA Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 FDASIA
Answer: -addresses drug shortages (need 6 mo notice)
-user fee programs for rx drugs and medical devices generic drugs and
biosimilars
●● Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013
Answer: -Compounding regulations: compounding facility to register as
an outsourcing facility (503B)
-Track and trace requirements
●● Code of Federal Regulations
Answer: Title 45 public welfare
Title 21 Food and Drugs
●● 503A versus 503B
Answer: 503A:
for individual pt ONLY
MUST follow USP guidelines
No registration/reporting
FOLLOW track-and-trace
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
AHEAD
●● Excerpta Medica
Answer: Comprehensive data base w/ > 7000 journals from 74
countries. Articles appears w/in 10 days of publication
More comprensive than Medline
●● International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Answer: 750 journals, including foreign. Include all aspects of pharmacy
●● Iowa Drug Information Service
Answer: 200 medical and pharmacy journals (primarily from US),
updated monthly
Not good for new articles
●● The Clin-Alert database
Answer: Contains 100 med and pharm journals focused on ADEs, DDI,
and medical-legal issues.
,Used primarily to look up ADE (especially recent reports)
●● 3 components of Meaningful Use
Answer: 1. EHR in meaningful manner (e prescribe)
2. electronic exchange of helath info to improve quality
3. Submit quality and other measures
●● Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Answer: patient centered home model (PCMH) & Accountable Care
Organiztion (ACO)
abbrev pathway for biosimilars
●● Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
Answer: a network of doctors and hospitals that shares responsibility for
managing the quality and cost of care provided to a group of patients
●● HEDIS measures have been established for:
Answer: Asthma
BB tx after MI
HTN
DM
breast CA screening
, antidepressants
adolescent/child immunization and body wt assessment
●● FDA Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 FDASIA
Answer: -addresses drug shortages (need 6 mo notice)
-user fee programs for rx drugs and medical devices generic drugs and
biosimilars
●● Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013
Answer: -Compounding regulations: compounding facility to register as
an outsourcing facility (503B)
-Track and trace requirements
●● Code of Federal Regulations
Answer: Title 45 public welfare
Title 21 Food and Drugs
●● 503A versus 503B
Answer: 503A:
for individual pt ONLY
MUST follow USP guidelines
No registration/reporting
FOLLOW track-and-trace
