Hospital Pharmacy MCQs

Cold chain is temperature-controlled storage and transport required for selected medicines and vaccines.

Stock rotation is use of inventory practices such as first-expiry-first-out to reduce wastage.

Pharmacovigilance is detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse medicine effects or related problems.

Medication error is a preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medicine use or patient harm.

Generic substitution is dispensing an equivalent generic product where permitted and appropriate.

Controlled medicine register is a legally required record for receipt, supply and balance of selected controlled medicines.

Extemporaneous preparation is preparation of a medicine for an individual patient when a suitable commercial product is unavailable.

Drug interaction is a change in effect of a medicine caused by another medicine, food or substance.