Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 6th Edition

Book Name: Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 6th Edition
Author: Cate Whittlesea, Karen Hodson
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN-10: 9780702070099
Year: 2018
Pages: 1112
Language: English
File size: 20.21 MB
File format: PDF

Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 6th Edition Pdf Book Description:

Now fully updated and revised in its sixth version, Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics combines the abilities of an interdisciplinary group of clinicians, pharmacists and physicians to provide an integrated understanding of disease processes, evidence-based clinical pharmacology and optimum medication regimes. Register your own Student Consult PIN for access into this e-book. Key Features, Crucial points boxes at the Start of each chapter. Every chapter co-written with a pharmacist and a clinician. In-depth therapy of therapeutics to encourage pharmaceutical prescribing. Logical order and arrangement: key factors, epidemiology, aetiology, disease, clinical signs, investigations and treatment, medications used in therapy. Clinical pharmacy encourages pharmacists and pharmacy support staff to shift their focus from product orientation to more direct engagement with patients, to maximise the beneits that individuals obtain from the medicines they take. Since the late 1980s the practice of clinical pharmacy has grown from a collection of patient-related functions to a process in which all actions are undertaken with the intention of achieving explicit outcomes for the patient.

In both primary and secondary health care, the use of medicines is the most common intervention. However, the use of medicines is not without risk. Selecting and prescribing drugs is increasingly complex and demanding, and it is undertaken as part of a multi-disciplinary process that involves pharmacists, some of whom are now prescribers in their own right, along with doctors, nurses and other members of the healthcare team. All must strive to promote safe, appropriate and cost-effective prescribing that respects patient choice and promotes adherence. This book was written to help the reader understand and address many of these issues. It is unashamedly written from a pharmacy perspective, although we do hope those from other disciplines will also find it of use. We have made considerable effort to update each chapter and ensure the content is relevant to current practice. Selected website addresses have been included to assist those who want to obtain further information, and many references are now available electronically. However, knowledge in therapeutics progresses rapidly, changes to dose regimens and licensed indications are frequent, safety issues emerge with established drugs and new medicines appear at regular intervals. Yesterday another landmark study may have been published that added to, or perhaps altered, the evidence base for a specific treatment. Together with the ongoing publication of national and international guidelines and frameworks, the face of therapeutics is ever changing. It is therefore inevitable that some sections of this book will date more quickly than others