Thoroughly updated and revised, the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care provides accessible information on nonprescription drug pharmacotherapy, nutritional supplements, medical foods, nondrug and preventive measures, and complementary and alternative therapies. The 17th edition helps students and practitioners develop problem-solving skills needed to assess and triage a pharmacy patient s medical complaints. It provides Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved dosing information and evidence-based research on the efficacy and safety of over-the-counter (OTC) and herbal medications. 
 52 peer-reviewed chapters provide updated content on OTC medications and complementary therapies, prescription-to-OTC conversions, FDA revised or final rules, FDA safety and label warnings, therapeutic issues and controversies, treatment or prevention guidelines, OTC drug withdrawals from the market, and updated product tables and references. Disease-oriented chapters contain new and revised case studies, treatment algorithms, comparisons of self-treatments, patient education boxes, product selection guidelines, and dosage and administration guidelines. A new chapter, Self-Care Components of Selected Chronic Diseases covers asthma, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and heart failure, dyslipidemia, and osteopenia and osteoporosis. Key Points section at the end of chapters highlights important concepts. Available online through subscription to PharmacyLibrary with robust classroom resources, including monthly chapter updates, chapter presentations through template PowerPoint slides, links to credible websites, and supplemental QuEST/SCHOLAR case studies.

Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs (17th, 12) by Krinsky, Daniel L - Berardi, Rosemary R [Hardcover (2011)]

Medical Books

Daniel L. Krinsky

Medicine

American Pharmacists Ascociation, Hardcover(2011)

Written and peer reviewed by experts in practice and academia, the 19th edition of the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care is an authoritative resource for students and for health care providers who counsel and care for patients undertaking self-treatment—nonprescription drugs, nutritional supplements, medical foods, nondrug and preventive measures, and complementary therapies. Its goal is to develop the knowledge and problem-solving skills needed to assess a patient’s health status and current practice of self-treatment, to determine whether self-care is necessary or appropriate, and, if appropriate, to recommend safe and effective self-care measures. KEY FEATURES <ul>
<li>Updated information and references throughout</li> <li>One new chapter (“Prebiotics and Probiotics”), a rewritten chapter (“Pharmacist’s Patient Care Process in Self-care”) to make the content more practical in the self-care/nonprescription product environment, and many new and updated drug product and drug interaction tables throughout</li> <li>Quick-reference tools such as treatment algorithms (including exclusions for self-treatment), drug product tables, patient education sidebars, and product administration illustrations</li> <li>Two new comprehensive patient cases for each disorder-related chapter</li> <li>Concise Key Points section at the end of each disorder-related chapter, summarizing critical information</li> <li>Color plate section with more than 300 illustrations</li> <li>Available online through subscription to PharmacyLibrary with robust classroom resources, including monthly chapter updates, supplemental QuEST/SCHOLAR case studies, chapter presentations through template PowerPoint slides, and links to credible Web sites that correspond to chapter topics</li> </ul>

Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-care

Amer Pharmacists Assn

Written and peer reviewed by experts in practice and academia, the 20th edition of the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care is an authoritative resource for students and for health care providers who counsel and care for patients undertaking self-treatment—nonprescription drugs, nutritional supplements, medical foods, nondrug and preventive measures, and complementary therapies. Its goal is to develop the knowledge and problem-solving skills needed to assess a patient’s health status and current practice of self-treatment, to determine whether self-care is necessary or appropriate, and, if appropriate, to recommend safe and effective self-care measures. 
Key Features: Enhanced content in all chapters from the previous edition with up-to-date information beneficial to all health care providers and students Updates to the universal objectives to complement the content in the chapters focused on medical disorders Abstracts for each online chapter providing concise introductory material focused on key features of each chapter. Up-to-date content on nonprescription medications including indications, dosages, interactions, current evidence, medical conditions and prescription to nonprescription reclassifications Quick-reference tools such as treatment algorithms (including exclusions for self-treatment), drug product tables, patient education sidebars, and product administration illustrations Two new comprehensive patient cases for each disorder-related chapter Concise Key Points section at the end of each disorder-related chapter, summarizing critical information

Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care

American Pharmacists Association (APhA)

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Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs (17th, 12) by Krinsky, Daniel L - Berardi, Rosemary R [Hardcover (2011)]

Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-care

Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care