Glossary
M
The Marketing Authorisation Holder holds the authorisation to place a medicine on the market and is responsible for marketing it. The marketing…
Services provided by a health care system to a population. They include:
- Hospital medical services aimed at curing, restoring and/or maintaining…
An upper threshold provided for by regulation or by tender specifications. Purchasers are not allowed to price above this threshold but have…
A medicine approved after a pioneering product. It is defined as comparable or similar but not clinically superior product.
In German: Me-too-…
A medical device is any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, including the…
Any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health…
The process of comparing a patient’s medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking. This reconciliation is done to…
Lack and/or gaps in the availability of medicines, usually due to problems in the supply chain. This supply issue affects how the pharmacy prepares…
Any substance or combination of substances which may be used in or administered to human beings either with a view to restoring, correcting or…
Medicine, which contains one pharmacological active ingredient (but more than one pharmacological excipient is possible).German:…
A multi-award procurement procedure means that a contract for purchasing goods and services is awarded to two or more suppliers. A multi-award…
Distribution system at wholesale level. Medicines of a manufacturer are distributed and supplied in parallel via different wholesalers.
In German:…
A medicine that can be purchased under any of several trademarks from different manufacturers or distributors. When the patent of a medicine expires…
N
A system of public health services offered to all inhabitants/residents and financed through general taxation (central or regional).
In German…
A list of medicines which are not included in the reimbursement scheme.
In German: Negativliste
Taxative Auflistung von Arzneimitteln, die nicht in…
A new molecular entity (NME) includes new chemical entities (NCE) and biological entities. A new chemical entity (NCE) is a Ü pharmaceutical that…
Medicines which are not eligible for reimbursement. Their costs are not covered by third party payers, but they have to be fully paid out of pocket…
O
Prescription of a medicine or medical device outside its licensed indication, to treat a condition or disease for which it has not been specially…
A medicine gets off-patent once the right of making, using and selling an invention protected by a grant for a set period of time expires. Cf.…
Any medicine which is prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with the prescriptions of a pharmacopoeia and is intended to be supplied directly to the…