NAPSRx exam (Latest 2023-2024)
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- Pharmaceuticals are arguably the most socially important
healthcare product
Answer: true
- Pharmaceutical development is a big-risk undertaking, in which
many promising leads prove disappointing
Answer: true
- Pharmaceutical sales are highest in which geographical regions
Answer: The U.S., Western Europe, and Japan
- The U.S. accounts for about of the world's pharmaceutical
revenues-
Answer: 50%
- Which off the following has fueled recent growth in the
pharmaceutical industry
Answer: population growth and increased life expectancies
- According to your manual, which statement accurately describes
the predicted relationship between pharmaceutical companies and genomic re- search facilities
Answer: partnerships between pharmaceuitcal companies and
genomic companies will not prove immediately profitable
- prescription drug therapy is not cost-effective for insurance
companies and healthcare providers
Answer: false
- the high price of healthcare is explained by the high price of
medicines
Answer: -false
- one of the oldest and least efffective pharmaceutical marjeting
techniques is DTC (direct-to-consumer) advertising 1 / 3
Answer: false
- what influences the number of districts in a region
Answer: the region's population
- what is an example of the regionalization off healthcare delivery
systems-
Answer: California and Florida have difffernet perscription
reimbursment policies
- the heart of pharmaceutical sales is the regional manager
Answer: false
- most DMs did not start as representatives
Answer: false
- how many territories are in a typical district
Answer: 8 to 12
- what is the most effective method for grabbing market share
Answer: comparative selling
- pharmaceutical reps mainly visit pharmacies
Answer: false
- it usually only takes 1-2 calls to a physician before he or she
commits to prescribing your product
Answer: false
- the pharmacist may dispense a product other than what the
physician prescribed
Answer: true
- according to chapter 12 of your manual, which of the following
would classify as "payers"
Answer: employers
- according to your manual, what defines "ethical pharmaceutical
companies
Answer: researching and developing novel drugs
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- one of the most diappointing results of the pharmaceutical
industry's continued investment in R & D is the few new drugs being approved and in development
Answer: false
- thanks to modern medicines, how long are people newly
diagnosed with HIV expected to live
Answer: another 50 years
- how much has the average american lifespan increased since
1890
Answer: al- most 30 years
- what is a treatment group
Answer: A group of patients assigned to receive a specified
treatment
- what is the main difference between a blinded and double-
blinded study-
Answer: in a double blinded study, neither the study staff nor the
study participants know which subjects are in the experimental group and which are in the control
- what does "asymptomatic" mean
Answer: not exhibiting signs or symptoms
- what term denotes the study of bodily functions (as opposed to
structures)
Answer: physiology
- In its broadest definition, a drug is any substance that produces
a physical or psychological change in the body
Answer: true
- how does the federal food, drug and cosmetic act (FFDCA)
define a drug
Answer: any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure,
mitigation, treatment or prevention off disease, or a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body
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