Product Overview
More than 150 patient cases teach you how to apply the principles of pharmacotherapy to real-world clinical practice
The essential study companion to DiPiros Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach,Tenth Edition
Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach uses 157 patient cases to help you develop the skills necessary to identify and resolve the most common drug therapy problems encountered in daily clinical practice. The case chapters are organized into organ system sections that correspond to those of the companion textbook. This proven effective case-based approach makes the book perfect for PharmD, Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, and other allied health courses
Sharpen your ability to:
Identify actual or potential drug therapy problems
Determine the desired therapeutic outcome
Evaluate therapeutic alternatives
Design an optimal individualized pharmacotherapeutic plan
Develop methods to evaluate the therapeutic outcome
Provide patient education
Communicate and the implement the pharmacotherapeutic plan
Develop expertise in pharmacotherapy decision making with:
Realistic patient presentations that include medical history, physical examination, and laboratory data, followed by a series of questions using a systematic, problem-solving approach
A compelling range of cases from a single disease state to multiple disease states and drug-related problems
Expert coverage that integrates the biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with therapeutics
Appendices containing valuable information on medical abbreviations, laboratory tests, mathematical conversion factors, and anthropometrics
