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The benchmark evidence-based pharmacotherapy text-now in full color! When it comes to helping you develop a mastery of evidence-based medicine for optimal patient outcomes, no book can match Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach . Like the discipline it covers, the scope of this trusted resource goes beyond drug indications and dosages to include the initial selection, proper administration, and monitoring of drugs. The book also delves into psychosocial issues that affect compliance topics related to a patient's ability to understand and manage often-complex therapy and lifestyle changes that may reduce the need for drug therapy or improve pharmacotherapeutic outcomes. Pharmacotherapy delivers everything you need to provide safe, efficacious drug therapy across the full range of therapeutic categories. FEATURES NEW! Expanded evidence-based recommendations NEW! Extended coverage of the timely issue of palliative care and pain medicine NEW! Important chapters on Pulmonary Hypertension, Disorders of Calcium and Phosphorus Homeostasis, and Multiple Myeloma, Outstanding pedagogy, including: Key Concepts highlighted in each chapter Clinical Presentation boxes summarize the most common disease signs and symptoms covered in each chapter Clinical Controversies boxes-presented in the Treatment sections of the disease-oriented chapters-examine the complicated issues faced by students and clinicians in providing drug therapy Clear therapeutic recommendations in each disease-specific chapter Evaluation of Therapeutic Outcomes boxes in each disease-specific chapter, containing key monitoring guidelines that facilitate the development of a pharmaceutical, nursing, or medical care plan
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Joseph T. DiPiro, PharmD, FCCP, Executive Dean, South Carolina School of Pharmacy, Charleston and Columbia, SC Robert L. Talbert, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS Professor, University of Texas, Austin and University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Gary C. Yee, PharmD, FCCP, Professor and Chair of Pharmacy Practice, University of Nebraska Medicial Center, Omaha Gary R. Matzke, PharmD, FCP, FCCP Associate Dean for Clinical Research and Public Policy, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Barbara G. Wells, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, BCPP, Dean, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MI L. Michael Posey, BS Pharm, President, PENS Pharmacy Editorial and News Service, Athens, GA
