Glossary
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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-patent…
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…
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
An organisation or person who delivers proper health care in a systematic way professionally to any individual in need of health care services.…
Expenditure spent by public funds (e.g., state, regional government, social health insurance) and private persons and entities on curative,…
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: …
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…