Drug Categorisation

There are a number of ways in which drugs may be categorised, depending on the criteria applied. It is worthwhile introducing some of these now as it can provide a context to help your understand the later text. 

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Human prescription drugs may be further categorised into ... 

Another way to categorise drugs is on the basis of their mode of action. Some drugs function simply by replacing a naturally occurring substance that is deficient or defective in a particular disease or condition. Examples of this include insulin... 

Explain how you might categorise psychoactive drugs into just a few groups. 

Like Medical Care, Nursing Care etcetera PC consists of core components the philosophy, the patient care process, and the practical management system to support the practice. PC was developed from Clinical Pharmacy Services (see below) with more focus on the patients need and on the practitioners (pharmacist) responsibilities towards the patient and the outcome of the drug therapy. To be able to show the improved process of care a categorisation system for drug-related problems was developed. The taxonomy has been further developed into seven categories (Cipolle et al. 1998). This can be used for practice and in studies. 

The selection and quality of a screening library with drug-like and lead-like structures is a critical endeavour. The features of drug-like and lead-like structures continue to be better defined, at the same time as the diversity of drug-like and lead-like molecular space continues to be explored and categorised. Other areas of development focus on the discovery of small molecules suitable for modulating protein-protein interactions, with a greater focus on natural product-like compounds. 

This model has been used to predict what might happen to drug handling and dose requirements under different clinical circumstances by categorising drugs according to their extraction ratio [1]. 

When an unusual or unexpected event, for which there is no evident natural explanation, occurs in a patient already taking a drug, the possibility that the event is drug-caused must always be considered, and may be categorised as follows ... 

Drug interactions can vary widely in complexity and it is important that pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are aware of how they can occur. Drug interactions can be categorised into two groups pharmacodynamic interactions and pharmacokinetic interactions. 

The expression proteomics approach is highly adaptable for analysis and categorisation of drug influence and disease state as well as the influence of biological stimuli, identification of body fluids and tissue biopsies, examining PTMs and discovery of new disease markers. 

Table 24.1 A categorisation of some sympathomimetic drugs Cardiovascular drugs, miscellaneous 879... 

A logical principle following from this categorisation is that all use of the drug should be associated with systematic collection of safety information. 

Clinical Lead for clinical issues (categorisation of drug toxicity/Tl patient monitoring measures)... 

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