A Patient Claims to Get Better Effects with a Tablet

question 4

Multiple Choice

A patient claims to get better effects with a tablet of Brand X of a drug than with a tablet of Brand Y of the same drug. Both brands contain the same amount of the active ingredient. What does the nurse know to be most likely?

• A) Advertising by pharmaceutical companies can enhance patient expectations of one brand over another, leading to a placebo effect.
• B) Because the drug preparations are chemically equivalent, the effects of the two brands must be identical.
• C) Tablets can differ in composition and can have differing rates of disintegration and dissolution, which can alter the drug's effects in the body.
• D) The bioavailability of a drug is determined by the amount of the drug in each dose.

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