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A health professional, who may be a medical practitioner, nurse or other professional, who has the first encounter with an individual and controls…
A physician (medical doctor) who does not limit his/her practice to certain disease categories and assumes the responsibility for the provision of…
Specific OTC medicines allowed for general sale might be sold by any retailer with the respective license. Usually, these are food shops, super- and…
A medicine which has the same qualitative and quantitative composition in active substances and the same pharmaceutical form as the reference…
In many countries, the data cover all pharmaceutical consumption. However, several countries provide data covering only the community pharmaceutical…
Regulation, measures and initiatives, typically undertaken by the government authorities, to promote the use of generics and/or (licensed) off-…
Practice of setting the price of a generic in relationship to the originator medicine, usually at a certain percentage lower than the originator…
The practice of dispensing a medicine, whether marketed under a trade name or generic name (branded or unbranded generic), with a less expensive…
A method of hospital cost-containment in which participating hospitals must share a prospectively set budget.
Method for allocating funds among…
A standard for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analyses, and reporting of clinical trials that provides assurance…
Good distribution practices are that part of quality assurance that ensure that the quality of a pharmaceutical products is maintained through…
That part of quality assurance which ensures that pharmaceutical products are consistently produced and controlled to the quality standards…
The gross domestic product (GDP) is defined as the gross expenditure on the final uses of the domestic supply of goods and services valued at…
A systematically developed tool which describes aspects of a patient's condition and the care to be given. A good guideline makes recommendations…