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refer to any preparation containing pharmaceutical substances of common or ordinary use to relieve common physical ailments and which may be dispensed without a medical prescription in original packages, bottles or containers, of which the nomenclature has been duly approved by the FDA
Household remedies
refers to a certified pharmacist who administers selected vaccines for adult immunization as prescribed under Section 40 article 4 of the Act
Immunizing Pharmacist
refer to pharmacies of institutions, organizations, and/or corporations that provide a range of pharmaceutical services, given exclusively to the employees and/or their qualified dependents
Institutional Pharmacies
refers to a supervised practical experience that is required to be completed for licensure as a registered pharmacist
Internship program
refers to a display of written, printed, or graphic matter on the immediate container of any article
Label
refer to all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter: o upon any item or any of its containers or wrappers; o accompanying any such item;
Labeling Materials
refers to an official document issued by the FDA for the purpose of marketing or free distribution of a product after evaluation of its safety, efficacy, and quality
Marketing Authorization (MA)
refers to the company or corporate or legal entity in the field of pharmaceuticals in whose name the MA for a drug product has been granted. This party is responsible for all aspects of the product, including quality and compliance with the conditions of the MA. The MAH may either be a manufacturer or distributor/exported/ importer/ wholesaler
Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH)
refers to any instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, appliance, implant, in vitro reagent or calibrator, software, material or other similar or related article intended by the manufacturer to be used alone, or in combination, for human beings, for one (1) or more of the specific purposes of: diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment, or alleviation of disease; diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, or alleviation of or compensation for an injury; investigation, replacement, modification or support of the anatomy of a physiological process; supporting or sustaining life; preventing infection; control of conception; disinfection of medical devices; and providing information for medical or diagnostic purposes by means of in vitro examination of specimens derived from the human body. This device does not achieve its primary intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological, or metabolic means, but which may be assisted in its intended function by such means, as defined under R.A. 9711
Medical device
refers to an activity conducted on normal circumstances of an individual or a group of health care practitioners to provide health services outside the hospital, clinic, and health care facility premises as differentiated from humanitarian missions and relief operations which is conducted during emergency situations such as calamity, war, or natural and man-made disasters
Medical Mission
¨ is 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 care professional, patient, or consumer
Medication Error
involves the patient-centered care provided by the pharmacist to optimize safe, effective and appropriate drug therapy by ensuring the proper selection, procurement, storage, order, transcription, preparation, dispensation, administration of the drug and monitoring of drug utilization and effect.
Medication Management
refer to drugs in their appropriate dosage forms, with assured quality, safety and efficacy for humans or animals, or both
Medicines
refers to one who represents any duly authorized manufacturer, distributor, trader, and wholesaler of pharmaceutical products and whose primary duty is to promote their products to duly licensed health professionals
Medical representative or professional service representative
refer to entities licensed by appropriate government agencies to dispense over-thecounter medicines based on an approved list
Nontraditional outlets
refer to pharmaceutical services of a duly licensed pharmaceutical outlet done over the internet
Online Pharmacy services
refer to medicines used for symptomatic relief of minor ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription
Over-the-counter (OTC) medicines
refers to a one-on-one interaction between a pharmacist and patient, client or a caregiver to provide appropriate, understandable and relevant information about the medications prescribed and/or dispensed
Patient Medication Counseling
is a comprehensive summary of all medications taken by a patient, including prescription, over-thecounter, health supplements and dietary supplements
Patient Medication Profile
refers to any patient-centered, outcomes-oriented activity or intervention that requires the pharmacist to cooperate with other healthcare professionals, patient and their caregivers, and other clients in preventing, identifying and resolving any drugrelated problem
Pharmaceutical Care
