Pharmacotherapy principles & practice / editors, Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, FCCP, FASHP, Dean and Professor, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee [and 5 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chisholm-Burns, Marie A., editor of compliation.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemotherapy--Textbooks.

Chemotherapy.

Drug Therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Drug Therapy.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xxv, 1942 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

Pharmacotherapy principles and practice

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, [2013]

Summary:

This Third Edition uses a solid evidence-based approach to teach you how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy. This text provides everything you need to gain an in-depth understanding of the principles essential optimal pharmacotherapy of disease. In order to be as clinically relevant as possible, the disease states and treatments discussed focus on disorders most often seen in clinical practice. Chapters were written or reviewed by pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians who are authorities in their fields. The book opens with an introductory chapter followed by chapters on pediatrics, geriatrics, and palliative care. The remainder of the text consists of ninety-eight disease-based chapters that review etiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation, followed by therapeutic recommendations for drug selection, dosing, and patient monitoring-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780071780469

0071780467

OCLC:

808769537