Pharmacotherapy. Principles and Practice

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

Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, FAST, FACHE, is executive vice president, provost, and J.S. Reinschmidt Endowed Professor at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine Department of Surgery.

Jill Kolesar, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FCCP, FFIP, is dean, professor, and the Jean M. Schmidt Chair in Drug Discovery at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. She is the editor of McGraw Hill's Top 300 Pharmacy Drug Cards and Top 100 Over the Counter Medication Flash Cards.

Patrick M. Malone, BS Pharm, PharmD, FASHP, is professor and associate dean of Internal Affairs at the University of Findlay College of Pharmacy. He has authored more than 120 publications has held various offices in national organizations.

Kelly C. Lee, PharmD, MAS, FCCP, BCPP, is professor of Clinical Pharmacy and associate dean for Assessment and Accreditation at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

P. Brandon Bookstaver, PharmD, FCCP, FIDSA, BCPS, is associate professor and director of Residency and Fellowship Training in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences at the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy in Columbia.

Kathryn Matthias, PharmD, BCIDP, is associate clinical professor of Pharmacy Practice & Science, and assistant professor of Medicine at The University of Arizona in Tucson.