White bagging refers to the distribution of specialty medication from a specialty pharmacy or PBM, directly to the physician's office, hospital, or clinic for administration to a specific patient.
White bagging can cause delays in medication administration. For example, patients may arrive to their clinic ready for their chemotherapy infusion only to be told that their medication has not arrived from the specialty pharmacy.
a. “White bagging” refers to the distribution of patient‐specific medication from a pharmacy, typically a specialty pharmacy, to the physician's office, hospital, or clinic for administration.
“Brown bagging” means the drug is purchased through a specialty pharmacy and shipped directly to the patient, who takes it to the provider's office for administration. “White bagging” means the drug is purchased through a specialty pharmacy and shipped to the provider's office for administration.
Under this policy, which is known as “white bagging,” prescriptions are filled by a third-party specialty pharmacy and sent to the provider to prepare and dispense — even if the provider has the medication in stock.
Use of manual resuscitators to ventilate a patient is frequently called "bagging" the patient and is regularly necessary in medical emergencies when the patient's breathing is insufficient (respiratory failure) or has ceased completely (respiratory arrest).
The "Brown Bag Review" of medicines is a common practice that involves encouraging patients to bring all of their medicines and supplements to their visit and reviewing them. The goal is to determine what medicines patients are taking and how they are taking them.
Brown bagging originally was Air Force slang for a married man who carried his lunch in a brown paper bag. A "brown-bagger" eventually came to mean simply a married man in the military. Reference: Luther Hodges, "Not 'If' But 'When': Liquor by the Drink," Charlotte Magazine (Spring 1976).
Consuming an alcoholic drink while concealed, usually, but not necessarily, in a brown paper bag, so as to drink in public where such activities are prohibited by law.
verb (used with object),brown-bagged, brown-bag·ging. to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license. to bring (one's lunch) to work or elsewhere, usually in a small brown paper bag.
/ (ˈbæɡɪŋ) / noun. coarse woven cloth; sacking.
bagging in British English
(ˈbæɡɪŋ ) noun. coarse woven cloth; sacking. Collins English Dictionary.
to win sth, especially a prize: He's the bookies' favourite to bag an Oscar. He is eager to bag his fifth victory of the season. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Bagging is classified into two types, i.e., bootstrapping and aggregation.
What is bagging? Bagging, also known as bootstrap aggregation, is the ensemble learning method that is commonly used to reduce variance within a noisy dataset. In bagging, a random sample of data in a training set is selected with replacement—meaning that the individual data points can be chosen more than once.
Bagging offers the advantage of allowing many weak learners to combine efforts to outdo a single strong learner. It also helps in the reduction of variance, hence eliminating the overfitting of models in the procedure. One disadvantage of bagging is that it introduces a loss of interpretability of a model.
It is done in an attempt to thwart any open container laws that may be in place. Open container laws vary from state to state, but the majority of states have some form of law that makes it illegal to possess or drink from a container of alcohol that has been opened if the person is: In a car that is parked.
"It's not my bag," an expression common in the 1960s to indicate a lack of interest, originated in U.S. jazz slang, where the metaphorical bag was a category that might hold likes or dislikes.
A bin bag, rubbish bag (British English), garbage bag, bin liner, trash bag (American English) or refuse sack is a disposable bag used to contain solid waste. Such bags are useful to line the insides of waste containers to prevent the insides of the receptacle from becoming coated in waste material.
a bag or briefcase made of green cloth, formerly used by lawyers for carrying documents. Slang. the legal profession. a lawyer.
Contributor's comments: The use of the word "bags" was used in the mid-north of South Australia around the Burra/Clare region in the 1950s meaning that one reserves the right to go first in a game or to be the one (for example) who is the person who counts during hide and seek etc.
What is a banana bag? You might call it intravenous hangover relief. Named for their distinctive yellow color, banana bags consist of thiamine, folate, magnesium sulfate and multivitamins in a saline solution.
Clear bagging is where health system specialty pharmacies have more control and transparency. The pharmacy must be in-network with the payer (also known as payer access) and have access from the manufacturer to dispense their medication (also known as LDD access).
A brown bag session is a meeting that typically occurs over or during lunch and uses an informal and often collaborative approach. It's not a formal, catered affair: Attendees are expected to bring their own lunch (hence the “brown bag”) if they plan to eat during the meetup.
The Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults is a list of medications that healthcare providers reference to safely prescribe medications for people above age 65. Healthcare providers use the Beers Criteria as a guide to do no harm.