Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice 7/e

An indispensable guide to the essential principles of pharmacotherapy and their application in real-world clinical practice

Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice uses a solid evidence-based approach to teach you how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy. Inside these pages, you’ll find everything you need to gain an in-depth understanding of the underlying principles of the pharmacotherapy of disease—and their practical application. All chapters were written or reviewed by pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians recognized as authorities in their fields.

This seventh edition reflects the latest findings in the field and has been updated with 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:

•   Structured learning objectives presented at the beginning of each chapter
•   NEW Chapter: Improving Patient Care by Understanding Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health
•   Key concepts, identified by icons, highlight the disease, patient assessment, and treatment
•   Patient encounters, significantly revised from the previous edition, which facilitate
development of critical thinking skills
•   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