Pharmacology Groundwork

pregnancy risk categories {Ans: A: B: C: D: X:}polymorphism {Ans: affects > 1% of population (htn, diabetes, etc.)}willingness to pay {Ans: ideal health intervention is the one that yields better value up to a certain threshold, assuming all patients will benefit equally from that intervention}Hill coefficient {Ans: slope of the relationship between drug concentration and drug effect; above 2 = steep; above 3 = instantaneous}inhibition {Ans: slow down metabolism}cost consequence analysis (CCA) {Ans: a form of CEA that presents costs and health outcomes in discrete categories, without aggregating or placing weights on the costs and health outcomes}