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G

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…

H

Health technologies include medicines, medical devices such as artificial hip joints, diagnostic techniques, surgical procedures, health promotion…
HTA is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its lifecycle. The…
Preparations obtained by subjecting herbal substances to treatments such as extraction, distillation, expression, fractionation, purification,…
The systematic identification of health technologies that are new, emerging or becoming obsolete and that have the potential to effect health, health…
A list of medicines that may be prescribed and applied by physicians in a hospital. Please note that the term “hospital formulary”, used here as…
Health care professional who provides services to patients and health care professionals in a hospital, usually in a hospital pharmacy. In German: …
A pharmacy affiliated to a hospital which primarily serves to provide pharmaceutical services for inpatients. In German: Krankenanstaltsapotheke /…
The price or amount paid by a purchaser in the hospital setting (e.g. a hospital pharmacy) in order to take delivery of certain unit of medicines.…
The hospital purchasing body is responsible for buying medicines used in their hospital(s) via direct negotiations with medicine companies or the…
Pharmaceuticals that may exclusively be administered in hospitals. In German: Krankenhausexklusve Arzneimittel Arzneimittel, die ausschließlich in…
1. Any active ingredient or combination of active ingredients presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease in human beings. 2.…

I

Pricing the same medicine differently based on the indication in which it is being used. Different variants for implementation have been proposed (e.…
Informal payments are payments to health care professionals in cash or in kind made outside official remuneration for these services by third party…
An interchangeable pharmaceutical product is one which is therapeutically equivalent to a comparator product and can be interchanged with the…
Interface management relates to policies, mechanisms, and measures of cooperation between the hospital and outpatient sectors, such as collaborative…
The practice of using the price(s) of identical medicines (ATC 5 level) or similar products (ATC 4 level) or therapeutically equivalent therapies in…