Published: 6 December 2019

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Test your knowledge: The Prescriber Update Quiz 2019

Prescriber Update 40(4): 88
December 2019

• Have you been reading Prescriber Update in 2019?
• Have you kept up to date with emerging safety signals?
• Test your knowledge with the end-of-year Prescriber Update quiz.

1. True or False: Paraffin-based emollients are flammable.
2. In general, it is safe to consume how much liquorice per day?
   1. 10 g
   2. 60 g
   3. 200 g
   4. more than 200 g
3. Hepatotoxicity is a significant risk of harm with vildagliptin. Liver function tests should be performed:
   1. before starting treatment, and as required if symptoms of liver toxicity occur
   2. before starting treatment and once during the first year of treatment
   3. before starting treatment and once per year for the first two years of treatment
   4. before starting treatment, at 3-monthly intervals during the first year of treatment, and periodically thereafter
4. What is the term for the clump of tablets in the gut which may be seen after very large overdoses of modified-release paracetamol?
5. Who is responsible for the content of data sheets and consumer medicine information?
   1. Pharmaceutical companies
   2. Medsafe
   3. PHARMAC
   4. All of the above
6. Approximately how much of the active ingredient included in an eye drop reaches the systemic circulation?
   1. 10 percent
   2. 50 percent
   3. 80 percent
   4. 100 percent
7. In healthy adults, the elimination half-life of zopiclone after a single dose is 5 hours. Approximately how much longer is it in patients with hepatic failure?
   1. no longer
   2. 3 hours
   3. 5 hours
   4. 7 hours
8. True or False: Low-dose vitamin K is an anticoagulant reversal agent for rivaroxaban.
9. The requirements for a valid adverse drug reaction report are:
   1. suspect medicine, one patient identifier, reporter details
   2. one patient identifier, suspect medicine, suspected reaction, reporter details
   3. suspected reaction, suspect medicine, reporter details, patient’s name and date of birth
   4. reporter details, patient’s name and date of birth, suspected reaction
10. Some medicines have been associated with bullous pemphigoid. Name three of them.

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