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| What are the drugs most often associate with adverse events? |
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| diuretics, opioids, analgesics, anticoagulants |
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| What is the Adverse Event Reporting System? |
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| voluntary program that encourages health care providers and consumers to report adverse effects of a drug |
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| What three classes do the drugs that have possible carcinogenic effects fall under? |
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| Antineoplastics, immunosuppressants, hormonal agents |
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| What is the drug class most likely to cause bone marrow toxicity? |
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| What is rhabdomyolysis a rare, serious effect of? |
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| What 3 effects could drug interactions have on the action of a drug? |
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| inhibit, enhance, or produce a totally new response |
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| What's the difference between an additive effect and a synergistic effect? |
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| the effect of the two drugs in a synergistic relationship is greater than just adding the two drug responses |
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| Who created the medication error index? |
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| What are three classifications of drugs that commonly result in errors? |
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| anti-infectives, hematologic, cardiovascular |
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| The majority of medication errors stem from what kind of factors? |
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| What are the most frequent categories of errors? |
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| patient assessment, inaccurate prescribing, administration |
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| Why was the institute for safe medication practices (ISMP) founded? |
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| to help standardize medication error reporting systems |
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| What is the FDA safety information and adverse event reporting program called? |
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| When pharmacotherapy fails to produce the desired outcome, what should always be considered a reason why? |
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| What are two analytical tools to assess for the likelihood of errors and to analyze errors once they have occurred? |
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