NAPSRx® Final Exam Practice / NAPSRx® Test Prep | More than 250 Questions with Verified Answers| (2023/ 2024 Update)
1. Which statement accurately
... [Show More] differentiates resistance from tolerance
Answer: tolerance refers to a person's diminished response to a drug after repeated use, while resistance applies to microorganisms' or "cancel" cells' abilities to withstand drug effects
2. Between 3% and 7% of hospital admissions in the United States are estimated to be for treatment of adverse drug reactoins
Answer: true
3. Which statement is true about the universal scale for quantiffying the severity of an adverse drug reaction
Answer: there is no scale
4. Why is noncomplience a serios public healthy concern
Answer: it increases the cost of medical care
5. Which of the following is NOT eligible for patent protection under U.S. regulations
Answer: companies can be granted patents for all these things
6. Drugs' trade names are often unrelated to their intended use
Answer: true
7. Like foods and household products, generic drugs are usually lower quality than the brand name drugs for which they are marketed as equivalents.
Answer: false
8. Legally, bioequivalence of different versions of a drug can vary by up to ________.
Answer: 20%
9. Which of the following statements about biologics is incorrect
Answer: they do not cause immune response
10. "large molecules" products are developed and manuffactured by a chemical process
Answer: false
11. What are drugs that attract or bind to cell receptors in order to mimic or enhance activities by endogenous chemical messengers
Answer: agonists
12. Which term denotes how an API works in the body?
Answer: mechanism of action
13. What cements the active and inert components together to maintain cohesive portions?
Answer: binders
14. What does the medical abbreviation "BID" denote
Answer: twice a day
15. What is the medical abbreviation for "as needed"
Answer: PRN
16. What components might cause patients' different reactions to brand name and generic drugs
Answer: differences in inactive ingredients
17. All cells have a nucleus
Answer: false
18. Which of the following does not affect drig response
Answer: the patients' genetic makeup, age, body size, and use of other drugs and dietary supplements, the patient's other conditions or diseases, whether or not the patient takes the drug properly
19. Drug reactions are predictable becasue they do not occur after a person has been previously exposed to the drug one or more times without any allergic reactions
Answer: false
20. What is the typical relationship between a drug's site of administration and site of action
Answer: they are usually somewhat removed from each other
21. What is CMAX
Answer: Peak plasma concentration on a measuring curve
22. Which of the following is not a main concept in clinical pharmacology
Answer: pharmacoprocesses
23. Which of the following is not a route of drug administration
Answer: transfugal
24. How are intradermal drugs delivered?
Answer: by injection under the skin [Show Less]