CNPR EXAM Study Questions with Correct Answers 100% Verified Pharmaceuticals are arguably the most socially important healthcare product. - Correct Answer True Pharmaceutical development is a high-risk undertaking, in which many promising leads prove disappointing. - Correct Answer True Pharmaceutical sales are highest in which geographic regions? - Correct Answer The U.S., Western Europe, and Japan.The U.S. accounts for about ______ of the world's pharmaceutical revenues. - Correct Answer 50% What event has fueled recent growth in the pharmaceutical industry? - Correct Answer Population growth and increased life expectancies.According to your manual, what describes the predicted relationship between pharmaceutical companies and genomic research facilities? - Correct Answer Partnerships between them will not prove immediately profitable.Prescription drug therapy is not cost-effective for insurance companies and insurance providers. - Correct Answer False The high price of healthcare is explained by the high price of medicines. - Correct Answer False One of the oldest and least effective pharmaceutical marketing techniques is DTC (direct-to-consumer) advertising. - Correct Answer False What influences the number of districts in a region? - Correct Answer The regions population What is an example of the regionalization of healthcare delivery systems? - Correct Answer California and Florida have different prescription reimbursement policies. 1 / 3
The heart of a pharmaceutical sales team is the Regional Manager. - Correct Answer False Most District Managers (DMs) did not start as representatives. - Correct Answer False How many territories are in a typical district? - Correct Answer 8 to 12 What is the most effective method for grabbing market share? - Correct Answer Comparative selling.Pharmaceutical reps mainly visit pharmacies. - Correct Answer False It usually takes about 1-2 calls to a physician before he/she commits to prescribing your product. - Correct Answer False The pharmacist may dispense a product other than what the physician prescribed. - Correct Answer True Which of the following would classify as Payers - Employers, patients, pharmacists, or physicians? - Correct Answer Employers.How would you define ethical pharmaceutical companies? - Correct Answer Ones that research and develop novel drugs.One of the most disappointing results of the pharmaceutical Industry's continued investment in R&D is the few new drugs being approved and in development. - Correct Answer False Thanks to modern medicines, how long are people newly diagnosed with HIV expected to live? - Correct Answer Another 50 years.How much has the average American lifespan increased since 1890? - Correct Answer Almost 30 years 2 / 3
What is a treatment group? - Correct Answer A group of patients assigned to receive a specified treatment.What is the main difference between a blinded and a double-blinded study? - Correct Answer In a double blind study, neither the study staff nor the study participants know which subjects are in the experimental group and which are in the control group.What does asymptomatic mean? - Correct Answer Not exhibiting signs or symptoms.What term denotes the study of bodily functions (as opposed to structures)? - Correct Answer Physiology.In its broadest definition, a drug is any substance that produces a physical or psychological change in the body. - Correct Answer True How does the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) define a drug? - Correct Answer Any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body.Most of the body's required vitamins must be taken from outside the body. - Correct Answer True ADME testing measures the rate at which the body absorbs the drug, distributes it to the organs necessary to produce the desired effect, metabolizes it into waste material, and then excretes it from the body. - Correct Answer True What field is ADME testing used in primarily? - Correct Answer Pharmacokinetics.Placebo effects can lead to withdrawal symptoms. - Correct Answer True On average, only about 5 of 4,000 drugs studied in laboratory are eventually studied in people. - Correct Answer True
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