Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, Seventh Edition

di Marie Chisholm-Burns (Autore)

Jill Kolesar (Autore)

Patrick Malone (Autore)

McGraw-Hill Education, 2025

An indispensable guide to the essential principles of pharmacotherapy and their application in real-world clinical practice   To deliver the best possible patient-centered care, healthcare professionals must understand how to maximize the effectiveness of medications, minimize adverse reactions, and promote favorable health outcomes. Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, Seventh Edition provides a strong foundation of evidence-based strategies to educate learners on the process of developing, executing, monitoring, and assessing medication therapy. This comprehensive guide will help you develop a sound understanding of the fundamental principles behind pharmacotherapy for various diseases.  This seventh edition reflects the latest findings in the field and includes a new chapter on health equity. The new chapter is followed by five chapters focused on special populations: pediatrics, geriatrics, palliative care, critical care, and global health and travel medicine. An additional 97 predominately disease-based chapters review epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and diagnosis, nonpharmacologic therapy, and pharmacologic therapy, with emphasis on clear recommendations for medication selection, desired outcomes, dosing, and patient monitoring. Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, Seventh Edition features: •   NEW Chapter: Improving Patient Care by Understanding Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health •   Structured learning objectives presented at the beginning of each chapter •   Key concepts, identified by icons, highlight the disease state, patient assessment, and treatment •   Patient encounters, significantly revised from the previous edition, which facilitate development of critical thinking skills  •   Patient Care Process section modeling the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process •   Up-to-date literature citations for each chapter •   Tables, figures, algorithms, and defined medical abbreviations •   Self-assessment questions and answers in the Online Learning Center •   Valuable table of common laboratory tests and reference ranges

• Autore: Marie Chisholm-Burns, Jill Kolesar, Patrick Malone
• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 1856 p.
• Peso: 3445 gr.
• EAN: 9781265462871

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