Examples: various tablets, capsules, cachets, pessaries, suppositories, tampons
The unit of presentation is usually a less granular term than the manufactured dose form, and often corresponds to the basic dose form.
Strength is expressed as "per one unit of presentation" and the presentation strength and the concentration are exactly the same.
Example 1: A bottle of 56 simvastatin 40mg oral tablets
| Manufactured dose form | Oral tablet | |
| Unit of presentation | Tablet | |
| [Pack size] | 56 tablets in the container | |
| Precise active ingredient | simvastatin | |
| Basis of strength substance | simvastatin | |
| Presentation strength (logical) | 40 mg per 1 unit of presentation | |
| Presentation strength | 40 mg [per 1 tablet] | UCUM: 40 mg [per 1 each] |
| Concentration strength | The weight of the tablet is not usually known so concentration strength is not usually available and is not deemed clinically significant |
Example 2: A pack of 28 bisoprolol 5 mg oral tablets contains two blister strips each with 14 tablets
| Manufactured dose form | Oral tablet | |
| Unit of presentation | Tablet | |
| [Pack size] | 14 tablets in the blister strip 2 blister strips in the box | 28 tablets in the outer container |
| Precise active ingredient | bisoprolol fumarate | |
| Basis of strength substance | bisoprolol fumarate | |
| Presentation strength (logical) | 5 mg per 1 unit of presentation | |
| Presentation strength | 5 mg [per 1 tablet] | UCUM: 5 mg [per 1 each] |
| Concentration strength | The weight of the tablet is not usually known so concentration strength is not usually available and is not deemed clinically significant |
Feedback
Overview
Content Tools
Apps