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refer to entities licensed by appropriate government agencies, and which are involved in the manufacture, importation, exportation, repacking, and distribution of pharmaceutical products to pharmaceutical outlets
Pharmaceutical establishments
refer to establishments engaged in any or all operations involved in the production of pharmaceutical products including the preparation, processing, compounding, formulating, filling, packaging, repackaging, altering, ornamenting, finishing and labeling, preparatory to their storage, sale, or distribution, except the compounding and filling of prescriptions in pharmaceutical outlets
Pharmaceutical manufacturers
refers to any activity undertaken, organized, or sponsored by a pharmaceutical establishment or outlet which is directed at promoting its product
Pharmaceutical marketing
refers to drugs, medicines, biological, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products/specialties, veterinary products, veterinary biologics and veterinary medicinal products.
Pharmaceutical Products
refers to a health professional who has been registered and issued a valid COR and PIC by the PRC and the PRBP
Pharmacist
refer to over-the-counter medicines classified by appropriate government agencies to be obtained only from a licensed pharmacist, with mandatory pharmacist’s advice on their selection and proper use
Pharmacist-only OTC medicines
refer to persons who assist the pharmacists in the different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established standard operating procedures and processes, with very minimal degree of independence or decision making and without direct interaction with patients
Pharmacy aides
refer to persons who assist the pharmacists in different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established standard operating procedures and processes, with a very minimum degree of independence or decision making and may have supervised interaction with patients
Pharmacy assistants
refer to persons who assist in compounding and dispensing of medicines in community, hospital, institutional and industrial settings or engaged in other activities under the supervision of the pharmacist as described in Section 39, Article IV of this Act
Pharmacy technicians
refer to the established national framework for quality standards and guidelines of the practice of pharmacy that respond to the needs of the people who require the pharmacists’ services to provide optimal, evidence-based care as formulated by the integrated APO and approved by the Professional Regulatory Board of Pharmacy
Philippine Practice Standards for Pharmacists
¨ refer to medicines given to health professionals for promotional purposes only
Physician’s samples
Refers to the patient medication profile which can be either electronic or hard copy wherein the dispensed prescription drugs, among others, are recorded
Prescription Book
refer to medicines which can only be dispensed by a pharmacist to a patient, upon the presentation of a valid prescription from a physician, dentist, or veterinarian and for which a pharmacist’s advice is necessary
Prescription/Ethical medicines
refers to the act of dispensing the remaining balance of medicines ordered in the prescription
Refilling of a prescription
refers to the process wherein a pharmacist provides consultative services and conducts preliminary assessment of symptoms and refers the patient to a physician or other health care professional
Referral
refers to the record book maintained by pharmacists, listing the patients referred to different health facilities for further diagnosis
Referral Registry
refers to a prescribed study program in an accredited school of pharmacy
Refresher program
refer to services provided by pharmacists to ensure the compliance of pharmaceutical products to specifications, policies, standards or laws
Regulatory Services
otherwise known as non-traditional outlets, refers to pharmaceutical outlets such as a supermarket, convenience store and other similar retail establishment authorized to sell only identified OTC and household remedy products directly to the general public on a retail basis
Retail Outlet for Non-Prescription Drugs (RONPD)
refer to services provided by persons handling pharmaceutical products other than the pharmacists, such as but not limited to pharmacy owners, medical representatives, PhTs, PhAs and PhAides
Sub-professional Services
