Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach

Learn How to Apply the Principles of Pharmacotherapy to Real-World Clinical Practice! Pharmacotherapy Casebook sharpens the problem-solving and clinical decision-making skills you need to identify and resolve commonly encountered drug problems. This new edition is packed with more than 150 patient cases -- almost all of them new or revised -- and makes the perfect study companion to the seventh edition of DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach. Everything you need to develop expertise in pharmacotherapy decision making: Realistic patient presentations include medical history, physical examination, and laboratory data, followed by a series of questions using a systematic, problem-solving approach Compelling range of cases -- from the uncomplicated (a single disease state) to the complex (multiple disease states and drug-related problems) Diverse authorship, with cases provided by 180 clinicians from 94 institutions Casebook sections conveniently categorized by body organ system to correspond with the DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy textbook Coverage that integrates the biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with therapeutics Appendix containing valuable information on pharmacy abbreviations, laboratory texts, mathematical conversion factors, anthropometrics, and sample responses to case questions