Pharmacotherapy Casebook - A Patient-Focused Approach - Grand Format

More Than 150 Patient Cases Teach You How to Apply the Principles of Pharmacotherapy to Real-World Clinical Practice Using a Standard Patient Care Process. The essential study companion to Dipiro's Pharmacotherapy : a Pathophysiologic approach, 11th edition. Pharmacotherapy Casebook : A Patient-Focused Approach uses 157 cases to help you develop the skills necessary to identify and resolve the most common medication therapy problems encountered in daily clinical practice.
Five introductory chapters describe use of the Casebook, active learning strategies, patient communication techniques, a standard patient care process, and documenting interventions. The case chapters are organized into organ system sections that correspond to those of the companion textbook. This effective, case-based approach makes the book perfect for Pharmacy, Nursing, Advanced Practice Provider, and other allied health curricula.
Enhance your ability to use a standard patient care process to : Collect the subjective and objective patient information needed to understand a patient's clinical status ; Assess the information collected to identify and prioritize problems and evaluate each medication for appropriateness, effectiveness, safety, and patient adherence ; Plan individualized patient care by creating step-by-step action items in collaboration with other healthcare providers and patients or caregivers ; Implement care plans as part of collaborative interprofessional healthcare teams to address medication and health-related problems ; Follow-up : monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of patient care plans and modify them as needed to achieve the goals of therapy.
Develop expertise in pharmacotherapy decision making with : Realistic patient cases that include medical history, physical examination, and laboratory data followed by a series of questions using the standard Patient Care Process ; A broad range of cases - from a single disease state to multiple diseases and medication therapy problems ; Expert coverage that integrates the biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with therapeutics ; Appendices containing sample answers to two cases and valuable information on medical abbreviations, laboratory test reference ranges, mathematical conversions, and anthropometrics.