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Domain 3 · 23.8% of the PTCB exam

Patient Safety and Quality Assurance

About 19 of your 80 scored questions come from here. 133 questions in the full bank; a rotating free sample below.

Knowledge areas tested
  1. High-alert/risk medications and look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications
  2. Error prevention strategies (order to correct patient, Tall Man lettering, separating inventory, leading and trailing zeros, bar code usage, limiting error-prone abbreviations)
  3. Issues that require pharmacist intervention (DUR, ADE, OTC recommendation, therapeutic substitution, misuse, adherence, post-immunization care, allergies, drug interactions) calc
  4. Event reporting procedures (medication errors, adverse effects, product integrity, MedWatch, VAERS, near miss, RCA, CQI)
  5. Types of prescription errors (incorrect dose, quantity, patient, drug, route of administration) calc
  6. Infection prevention procedures and cleaning standards (handwashing, PPE, cleaning counting trays, countertops, equipment)
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