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Subject(s)

• Hospital pharmacies—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Pharmacy—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Clinical pharmacology—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Related name

• McCarthy, Michelle W., 1970- [Browse]
• Kockler, Denise R., 1968- [Browse]
• Wiffen, Phil [Browse]

Series

Oxford American handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

The Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Pharmacy provides an accessible and easily navigable quick-reference guide for practicing and student pharmacists. It offers complete, portable coverage of the pharmacy profession, from high-value scientific and clinical information, such as adverse drug reactions, interactions, and pharmaceutical calculations to professional issues such as ethics, practice management, evidence-based medicine, and research. It covers the main body systems and provides a wealth of practical information required by pharmacists on a day-to-day basis, including many topics not traditionally found in handbooks.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based upon print version of record.

Language note

English

Contents

• ""Contents""; ""1 Adherence""; ""Introduction""; ""Adherence measures""; ""Strategies to improve adherence""; ""Adherence counseling""; ""2 Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions""; ""Introduction""; ""Classification of ADRs""; ""Adverse reactions: drug or disease?""; ""Helping patients understand the risk of ADRs""; ""Reporting ADRs""; ""Drug interactions""; ""Managing drug interactions""; ""3 Anaphylaxis""; ""Symptoms and signs of anaphylaxis""; ""Treatment of anaphylaxis""; ""Prevention of anaphylaxis""; ""4 Clinical pharmacy skills""; ""Clinical pharmacy definition""
• ""Prescription screening and monitoring""; ""Pharmacist documentation in patient medical records (PMR)""; ""Understanding medical records""; ""Medication review""; ""Medication reconciliation""; ""Intervention monitoring""; ""Obtaining patient medication histories""; ""Medication-use evaluation (MUE)""; ""Medication errors""; ""Financial reports and budget statements""; ""Hospital budget statements""; ""Patient assistance programs""; ""Drug and medication information services""; ""5 Tips for professional conduct""; ""Communication skills""; ""Oral presentation skills""
• ""Written communication skills""; ""Assertiveness""; ""Leading meetings""; ""Prioritizing""; ""Project planning""; ""Time management""; ""Ethical dilemmas""; ""Working with medical staff""; ""Patient etiquette""; ""Working with distressed patients""; ""Working with dying patients""; ""6 Pharmacy automation""; ""Pharmacy automation and technology""; ""Computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support (CDS)""; ""Automated storage and distribution systems""; ""Bar-coded medication administration""; ""Computerized infusion pumps (""smart pumps"")""; ""7 Clinical trials""
• ""Critical appraisal of systematic reviews""; ""Critical assessment of papers""; ""Useful references for pharmacists""; ""The number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH)""; ""Confidence intervals""; ""Validity""; ""9 Herbal medications""; ""Overview of herbal medications""; ""Legislation of herbal medications""; ""Herbal medications of current interest""; ""Safety and adverse effects""; ""Drug interactions""; ""Special considerations""; ""10 Patient management issues""; ""Introduction to liver disease""; ""Drug use in liver disease""; ""Drug dosing in liver disease""; ""Hepatorenal syndrome""

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of clinical pharmacy
• Oxford handbook of clinical pharmacy.

ISBN

• 1-282-54394-6
• 9786612543944
• 0-19-970522-4

OCLC

• 746883744
• 300463047

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