Chapter 26: Pharmacy Informatics: Enabling Safe and Efficacious Medication Use

Chapter 26: Pharmacy Informatics: Enabling Safe and Efficacious Medication Use

Which of the following represents the correct order of the medication use process?

a. Monitoring, prescribing, order verification, administration, follow-up

b. Prescribing, order verification, dispensing, administration, monitoring

c. Order verification, dispensing, administration, monitoring, documentation

d. Assessment, prescribing, order verification, administration, monitoring

e. None of the above

b. Prescribing, order verification, dispensing, administration, monitoring

Pharmacy informatics includes:

a. People

b. Information

c. Technology

d. a and b

e. a, b, and c

e. a, b, and c

The two primary types of information used in pharmacy informatics include:

a. Patient-specific and clinical expertise

b. Clinical expertise and knowledge-based

c. Patient-specific and knowledge-based

d. Referential and guidelines

e. None of the above

c. Patient-specific and knowledge-based

The primary similarity between CPOE and e-prescriptions is they:

a. Are easy to implement because they do not disrupt workflow

b. Both address the dispensing stage of the medication use process

c. Eliminate illegible prescriptions

d. Eliminate all errors related to prescribing

e. c and d

c. Eliminate illegible prescriptions

Which of the following provides the communication network for e-prescriptions?

a. Clinical decision support systems

b. Big Data

c. Health 2.0

d. Prescription drug monitoring programs

e. Surescripts^®

e. Surescripts^®

The three components of clinical decision support systems include:

a. CPOE system, transmission network, transmission standards

b. Knowledge base, e-prescription network, transmission standards

c. Communication ...