Pharmacotherapeutics definition

Pharmacotherapeutics means knowledge and intervention related to the administration of medications and includes, but is not limited to, drug actions and interactions, indications for and usage of the drug, contraindications, dosage, route of administration, side effects of the drug, and nursing implications.
Pharmacotherapeutics means the study of the uses of drugs in the treatment of disease.

Related to Pharmacotherapeutics

  • Therapeutic school means a residential group living facility:

  • Therapeutic care means services provided by licensed or certified speech pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Physical Therapists.

  • in vitro diagnostic medical device means any medical device which is a reagent, reagent product, calibrator, control material, kit, instrument, apparatus, equipment, software or system, whether used alone or in combination, intended by the manufacturer to be used in vitro for the examination of specimens, including blood and tissue donations, derived from the human body, solely or principally for the purpose of providing information:

  • Therapeutic diet means meals served that are soft, low-fat, low-sodium or controlled calorie.

  • Radiopharmaceutical means any drug that exhibits spontaneous disintegration of unstable nuclei with the emission of nuclear particles or photons and includes any non-radioactive reagent kit or radionuclide generator that is intended to be used in the preparation of any such substance, but does not include drugs such as carbon-containing compounds or potassium-containing salts that include trace quantities of naturally occurring radionuclides. The term also includes any biological product that is labeled with a radionuclide or intended solely to be labeled with a radionuclide.