Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, 7th Edition (Original PDF from Publisher)

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