SPLE

PART 3
20% - Social/Behavioral/Administrative
Sciences

Total: 110 Questions

Pharmacoeconomics
Management
Pharmacy Law and Ethics
Communication SKILLS
BIOSTATISTICS
Methods of Drug Distribution System
medications error and
Pharmacoepidemiology
Regulations reading
Regulations important
Q)1 Who is responsible from pharmacist in Saudi?
A) A- ministry of health (for patient)
B- FDA (for products)
C- Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
Q)2 Medication errors uploaded to?
A) Ministry of Health (MOH)
Q)3 Lookalike, sound alike?
A) Use Tall man Letter
Q)4 Examples of direct cost?
A) Examples of direct costs are direct labor, direct materials,
commissions, piece rate wages, and manufacturing supplies.
Examples of indirect costs are production supervision
salaries, quality control costs, insurance, and depreciation.
Q)5 What is PH in stomach?
A) Ph of gastric acid is 1.5 to 3.5
Q)6 Data expire of medication is 2/2017 when last time will be use
medication?
A) End of the month (last day of Feb)
Q)7 What is adverse drug event?
A) Is an injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug.
Q)8 What is mean pregnant category B?
A) A- no risk in controlled human studies:
B- no risk in other studies: animal reproduction studies have
failed to demonstrate a risk to The fetus.
C- risk not ruled out: animal reproduction studies have shown an
adverse effect on
the fetus.
D- positive evidence of risk: there is positive evidence of human
fetal risk.
X- contraindicated in pregnancy
Q)9 Shortage in medicine who’s to contact?
A) Saudi food and drug authority
Q)10 Which of the following are from communication skill?
A) Verbal, nonverbal , visual & interpersonal communication
Q)11 What is shelf life efficacy?
A) Shelf life is the period of time, from the date of manufacture, that a
drug product is expected to remain within its approved product
specification while stored under defined conditions. Shelf life is
typically expressed in units of months, i.e. 24 months, 36 months, to
a maximum of 60 months
Q)12 What is refrigerator temp?
A) Refrigerate: (2–8ºcentigrade / 35–46degrees Fahrenheit).
Freeze: (Below 0 degrees Celsius, between -10 and -25 ºc).
Room temperature: Between (15–25ºc)
Cool place: between 8 - 15 ºc
Q)13 What is pharmaceutical sociology?
A) It is a research program to increase profit and get the best health.
Q)14 What is the type of medication error?
A)

Q)15 What is Cost-minimization?

A) A-Definition: compares the costs of two or more treatment
alternatives that have a demonstrated equivalence in therapeutic
outcome (i.e., therapeutically equivalent
alternatives).
B. Results expressed as a total cost per treatment alternative.
C. Used to determine the least costly alternative.
Q)16 Cost-effectiveness?
A)
Definition—method to compare treatment alternatives, or programs
where cost is measured
in monetary terms and consequences in units of effectiveness or
natural units.
B. Results are expressed as average cost-effectiveness ratios, or as
the incremental cost of using one alternative over another.
C. Used to compare competing programs or treatment alternatives
that differ in therapeutic outcome:
I. May be less expensive, and at least as effective as the comparator.
II. May be more expensive while providing an additional benefit
worth the additional cost.
III. May be less expensive and less effective when the extra benefit
is not worth the extra cost.
Q)17 Set 11 numbers which number Is the media??
Median: The median is the point in a distribution that divides
scores in half.
Consider the following set of values
2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9
Mode: The mode is the number that occurs most frequently in
a distribution. In the following distribution, the mode is 53
50 51 51 52 53 53 53 53 54 55
Mean: The mean equals the sum of all values divided by the
number of participants-commonly referred to as the average.
55 61 66 72 78 86 92
In this example, the mean is 72.

Q)18 What is Example of Direct cost?

A) Costs are the resources consumed by a program or treatment
alternative.
Direct medical costs —costs used for the prevention, detection,
and treatment of a disease.
Examples: hospitalization, drugs, laboratory testing
Direct nonmedical costs —costs for nonmedical services that are
the result of illness or disease, but do not involve purchasing
medical services.
Examples: special food, transportation for health care, family care.
Q)19 What is Example of indirect cost?
A) C. Indirect costs —costs of morbidity and mortality resulting from
illness or disease
Examples: lost productivity, premature death.
Q)20 Who the person has responsible about Hazardous and High alert
medication?
A) Pharmacist responsibility
Q)21 Who is responsible for the equivalence of pharmaceutical certificate
from foreign Universities?
A) Ministry of Education (MOE)
Q)22 When you have the right as a pharmacist to refuse prescription?
A) A pharmacist may refuse to fill a prescription if the pharmacist feels
that the prescription would harm the patient if they were to fill it or
if the pharmacist does not feel comfortable with the prescription
based on their professional judgement.

Q)23 Which is of the following responsible of pricing of drugs?

A) The SFDA is the main body responsible for the price regulation of
pharmaceuticals in Saudi Arabia.
Q)24 Calculate of Median?
A)

The median is also the number that is halfway into the set. To find
the median, the data
should be arranged in order from least to greatest. If there is an even
number of items in the
data set, then the median is found by taking the mean (average) of
the two middlemost numbers.
332 Question about median ( a group of ages or weights ) EX:
64+70+35+80+75/ 5?
Answer Median: The median is the point in a distribution that
divides scores in half. Consider the following set of values
Example: The median of the data 40, 50, 99, 68, 98, 60, 94 is
(a) 40 (b) 60 (c) 68 (d) 99
Find the median of the data: 3, 11, 7, 2, 5, 9, 9, 2, 10, 15, 7
Arranging in ascending order. 2, 2, 3, 5, 7, 7, 9, 9, 10, 11, 15
The middle most value is 7, so median is 7.
Q)25 Meaning of category D
Category A
Adequate and well-controlled studies have failed to demonstrate a
risk to the fetus in the first trimester of pregnancy (and there is no
evidence of risk in later trimesters).
Category B
Animal reproduction studies have failed to demonstrate a risk to the
fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in
pregnant women.
Category C
Animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on the
fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in
humans, but potential benefits may warrant use of
the drug in pregnant women despite potential risks.
Category D
 There is positive evidence of human fetal risk based on adverse
reaction data from investigational or marketing experience or
studies in humans, but potential benefits may warrant use of the
drug in pregnant women despite potential risks.
Category X
Studies in animals or humans have demonstrated fetal abnormalities
and/or there is positive
evidence of human fetal risk based on adverse reaction data from
investigational or marketing experience, and the risks involved in
use of the drug in pregnant women clearly
outweigh potential benefits.
Q)26 The representative gave you a free sample of the medicine what is
the correct behavior?
A) Give it to a patient I know the history
Q)27 Pharmacovigilance in which phase?
A) Phase IV
Q)28 Post marketing in which phase?
A) Phase IV
Q)29 Benefit of drug formulary?
A)
Drug formulary is a list of prescription drugs that includes generics
& trade names thus the physicians & pharmacists can evaluate the
ones of greatest value & can be updated Regularly.
Q)30 The patient forgot the treatment of aspirin inside the water cycle,
what is the problem that became the drug ‫؟‬
A) It will dissolve and form acetic acid
Q)31 What is hazardous med?
Hazardous Drugs include agents that exhibit one or more of the
following characteristics in humans or animals:
Carcinogenicity
Teratogenicity or other developmental toxicity
Reproductive toxicity
Organ toxicity at low doses
Genotoxicity
 Hazardous drugs include antineoplastic agents which are used to
treat cancer.
Q)32 What is pandemic definition?
A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease.
Q)33 Example, pharmacist responsible for specific thing, monitoring
planning, name of plan?
A) Strategy, business, operating
Q)34 What is temperature refrigerator?
The ideal refrigerator temperature is 35° F (1.6° C)
Q)35 What are most common errors?
A) Prescription
Q)36 How can Separate look alike medication?
A) Tall man letter
Q)37 Which of the following is considered as a high alert medication?
A) Adrenergic agents
Anesthetics
Antiarrhythmics
Anticoagulants
Cardioplegic solutions
Chemotherapy
Dextrose ≥20%
Dialysis solutions
Electrolytes (concentrated)
Epidural/intrathecal agents
Epoprostenol
Inotropic agents
Insulin/hypoglycemics
Liposomal products
Narcotics
Neuromuscular blocking agents
Nitroprusside
Oxytocin
Parenteral nutrition
Promethazine
Radiocontrast agents
Sedatives
Sterile water for injection
Q)38 The primary outcome of cost utility analysis?
A) The cost per QALY, Quality of life
Q)39 What is the type of cost of the Pharmacist salary?
A) Direct non-medical cost
Q)40 Mother Of An Infant Age 3 Months Came To The Community
Pharmacy Asking For Antipyretic For Her Son What Should U Do?
A) Tell Her To Go To The Hospital
Q)41 What Are the Five Rights Of Medication Administration?
The Right Patient, The Right Drug, The Right Dose, The Right
Route, And The Right Time.
Q)42 In The ICU The Physician Prescribed Gentamicin but The Nurse
Got Two Gentamicin, So What Is Appropriate Behavior?
A) Tell doctor. Report this errors
Q)43 What Is The Most High Risk When Happen Error?
Look Like Medication - High Alert Medication - Sound Like
Medication
Q)44 You Are Working In A Medical Center And Your Boss Ask You
To Do A Study About A Drug That It Should Be Involved In The
Hospital Formulary Or Not According To The Outcome And The
Money. Which Type Of Analysis?
A) A. Cost Utility. B. Cost Minimization. C. Cost Effectiveness
Q)45 Which Of The Following Abbreviations Means Before Meal In
Latin?
A) AC
Q)46 Which Of The Following Abbreviations Is A Dangerous
Abbreviation?
A) Prn (When necessary)
Q)47 Cost Utility, Cost Minimization, Cost Effectiveness, Cases
A) effectiveness ratio (ICER), otherwise known as the cost per QALY.
This is calculated as the difference in the expected cost of two
interventions, divided by the difference in the expected QALYs
produced by the two interventions
Q)47 Number Needed To Treat (NNT) Equation
is the number of patients you need to treat to prevent one additional
bad outcome (death, stroke, etc.)
Q)48 Medication Error Occurred And Patient. Left Hospital, What
Should You Do?
A) Call Patient. Directly
Q)49 Who Is Responsible For Giving Narcotic Medication License For
Pharmacy?
A) Ministry Of Interior
Q)50 What Is Abbreviation of Narcotic Medication?
A) MSO4: morphine sulfate
MOP: Morphine
OPI: Opiates
Q)51 Definition Of Pharmacovigilance?
A) Practice of Monitoring the effects of medical drugs after they are
licensed for use. Including Ad. Events reporting.
Q)52 Definition Of Pharmaceutical Care,Ethics?
Code of Ethics for Pharmacists. PREAMBLE. Pharmacists are
health professionals who assist individuals in making the best use of
medications. This Code, prepared and supported by pharmacists, is
intended to state publicly the principles that form the fundamental
basis of the roles and responsibilities of pharmacists.
Pharmaceutical care is the responsible provision of drug therapy for
the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient's
quality of life. These outcomes are. cure of a disease; elimination or
reduction of a patient's symptomatology; arresting or
slowing of a disease process
Q)53 The Pharmacist Find Patient Don’t Take The Refill Medication For
Last 3month ,What Drug Related Problem
A) Non aldherence
Q)54 What Is Incidence Definition?
A) Probability of occurrence of given medical condition in a
population at a period of time.
Q)55 Temperature:25-30c?
A) Warm
Q)56 Study Concern Quality Of Life?
A) Utility
Q)57 Which Of The Following Have High Contamination?
People - Surface Area
Q)58 Phase 1 of drug development?
A) phase I. They are usually small trials, recruiting only a few patients.
Phase 1 trials aim to find out: how much of the drug is safeto give
Q)59 8Patient have adverse drug and went to many hospitals and each
hospital prescribed a different drug to treat the adverse effect what
is the condition?
Poly pharmacy, prescription error
Q)60 Hazard waste which color?
Color yellow
Q)61 You pharmacist and P and T committee asked you to do
a studies for medication according drug A same as drug
B but the difference in the safety which study?
Answer A- Cost effectiveness B- Cost benefit C- Cost utility
Q)62 If you are having a study that you want to represent the quantitative
data on it what is the best way:
A-Text B-Figures C-Number D-Table
Q)63 Give definition (when pharmacists keep patients secrets)
Confidentiality
Q)64 When the patient is traveling from RUH to JED to have an
appointment in a hospital the cost, in this case, consider as?
A) Direct nonmedical cost
Q)65 When you find out one of your colleagues is steeling Narcotics
what do you have to do?
A) Tell the pharmacy director
Q)66 What is GMP?
A) Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is a system for ensuring that
products are consistently produced and controlled according to
quality standards. It is designed to minimize the risks involved in
any pharmaceutical production that cannot be eliminated through
testing the final product.
Q)67 Another name of phase iv?
A) Postmarketing
Q)68 The fiscal year is:
a) a unit of time—a year as the term implies—that businesses use to
record their financial interactions.
b) a unit of time—a year as the term implies—that businesses use to
record their development.
c) a unit of time—a year as the term implies—that businesses use
to record their quality improvement .
d) a unit of time—a year as the term implies—that businesses use
to record their loss.
Q)69 which of the following Provides a snapshot of an organization’s
assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity at any particular point
in time:
a) The Balance Sheet.
b) The Statement of Cash Flows.
c) The Statement of Cash retention.
d) The Income Statement.
Q)70 Which of the following represent throughout the fiscal year, the
inflows and outflows of cash are recorded in the statement of
cash flows:
a) The Balance Sheet.
b) The Statement of Cash Flows.
c) The Statement of Cash retention.
d) The Income Statement.
Q)71 …………………………… measures the efficiency with which
an organization uses its assets.
a) Turnover Ratio.
b) Liquidity Ratio.
c) Gross profit Margin.
d) Net Profit margin
Q)72 ……………… is a technical managerial function that -enables
HSOs to deal with the present and anticipate the future.
a) Planning.
b) Organizing.
c) Staffing.
d) Controlling.
Q)73 …… is a technical function; it means establishing authority and
responsibility relationships and formal structure and reporting
relationships
a) Planning.
b) Organizing.
c) Staffing.
d) Controlling.
Q)74 ………….. is technical and focuses on monitoring, adjusting and
improving performance.
a) Planning.
b) Organizing.
c) Staffing.
d) Controlling.
Q)75 ………………. is the acquiring and retaining human resources.
a) Planning.
b) Organizing.
c) Staffing.
d) Controlling.
Q)76 …………….. is a social behavior in nature and focuses on initiating
action in the organization.
a) Planning.
b) Organizing.
c) Directing.
d) Controlling.
Q)77 ……… is a technical management function that is a part of all other
management functions.
a) Planning.
b) Organizing.
c) Decision Making.
d) Controlling.
Q)78 …………….. are those in which executives engage for the general
purpose of maintaining contact with people or organizations that are
associated with organization’s present or future operations.
a) External relations.
b) Environmental surveillance.
 c) Internal management.
d) External management.
Q)79 ……… monitor and survey the organization’s external environment
to identify and assess the affects of changes.
a) External relations.
b) Environmental surveillance.
c) Internal management.
d) External management.
Q)89 ………….. is a process, composed of interrelated social and
technical functions and activities (including roles), occurring in a
formal organizational setting for the purpose of accomplishing
predetermined objectives through the utilization of human and other
resources.
a) Management.
b) Leadership.
c) Directing.
d) Decision Making.
Q)90 ……….. is the ability to engage in a set of behaviors that are
functionally related to one another and that lead to a desired
performance level in a given area
a) Management.
b) Leadership.
c) Directing.
d) Skill.
Q)91 ………… are related to the ability to visualize the organization as a
whole, recognizes relationships among organizational parts, and
understand how the organization fits into the wider context of the
industry, community and the world.
a) Human Relation Skills.
b) Conceptual Skills.
c) Technical Skills
d) Clinical skills.
Q)92 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulations require
pharmacies to keep controlled substances records, including
prescriptions for at least ………..
 a) two years
b) three years
c) four years
d) five years.
Q)93 ……… are issues that are not specific to a given pharmacist, but
rather are those that must be addressed by all pharmacists and by
society in general.
a) Macro ethical issues
b) Micro ethical issues
c) Micro situations
d) Macro situation
Q)94 revealing information about a patient's medications to members of
the family is example of:
a) patient confidentiality
b) informed consent
c) informed refusal
d) express consent
Q)95 Pharmacist must possess the knowledge base that's at least
minimally allows them to carry out their Functions as reliable
therapeutic experts. This is called:
A) Competency.
b) Caring
c) Trustworthiness.
d) Knowledge.
Q)96 ……………………… is the right of individuals to make decisions
about what will happen to their bodies, what choices will be made
among competing options, and what they choose to take, or not
take, into their bodies, choice among health care providers, and the
choice of refusing medical treatment.
a) Autonomy
b) Beneficence
c) Nonmaleficence
d) justice
Q)97 …………….. indicates that you act in a manner to do good.
a) Autonomy
 b) Beneficence
c) Nonmaleficence
d) justice
Q)98 ……………. is sometimes used more broadly to include the
prevention of harm and the removal of harmful conditions.
a) Autonomy
b) Beneficence
c) Nonmaleficence
d) justice
Q)99 …………….. means that the pharmacists demonstrate loyalty to
their patients.
Pharmacists have an obligation of fidelity to all their patients,
regardless of the length of the professional relationship.
a) Autonomy
b) Beneficence
c) Nonmaleficence
d) Fidelity
Q)100 ………. is the ethical principle that instructs pharmacists to be
honest in their dealings with patients.
a) Autonomy
b) Beneficence
c) Nonmaleficence
d) veracity
Q)101 ……………………refers to the equal distribution of the benefits
and burdens of society among all members of this society.
a) Autonomy
b) Beneficence
c) Nonmaleficence
d) distrubtive justice
Q)102 euthanasia means:
a) Autonomy
b) Beneficence
c) Nonmaleficence
d) mercy killing
Q)103 if one lacks the ability to make an autonomous decision, then it is
up to health care provider, this is called:
a) weak paternalism
b) strong paternalism
c) the harm principle
d) autonomy.
Q)104 making the wrong decision or a decision that will cause harm to
themselves is called:
a) weak paternalism
b) strong paternalism
c) the harm principle
d) autonomy.
Q)105 ………….are unenforceable norms and values guide behavior
a) ethics.
b) morals.
c) laws.
d) rules.
Q)106 …………….values are written into enforceable standards of
behavior
a) ethics.
b) morals.
c) laws.
d) rules.
Q)107 The latin abbreviation for “stat”
a. Immediately
b. Fast release
c. More frequent
d. Accurate dose
Q)108 The latin abbreviation for "Every Night" is:
a- h.s. b- o.n. c- p.c. d- i.c.
Q)109 The Latin abbreviation for "After Meals" is:
a- a.c. b- a.a. c- p.c. d- i.c.
Q)110 The latin abbreviation for "Four Times Daily" is:
a- a.c. b- a.a. c- p.c. d- q.i.d.