Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs

Synopsis

Using a case-based approach, this widely used text helps students develop practical problem-solving skills for devising and implementing successful drug treatment regimens. Case studies integrated into each chapter illustrate key concepts and principles of therapeutics and give students practice in developing their own evidence-based therapeutic plans.

This completely updated Ninth Edition incorporates the latest drug treatments and therapeutic practices and guidelines. New chapters cover pharmacogenomics and osteoporosis. Transplantation is now broken into two chapters to ensure adequate coverage. Culturally competent care issues are now incorporated into many chapters.

A companion Website offers the fully searchable text, animations of pathophysiologic concepts, and additional case studies.

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Reviewer:Anna M Wodlinger, Pharm.D., BCPS (Temple University School of Pharmacy)
Description:This is the ninth edition of one of the most often used books in pharmacy education, which uniquely uses case studies to present disease states and the clinical use of drugs.
Purpose:The purpose is to stimulate readers to integrate and apply therapeutic principles in the context of specific clinical situations.
Audience:The book is intended for students and practitioners, including residents, and it is particularly useful for students and practitioners who may be less familiar with particular disease states. The authors of each chapter are well known in their respective specialty areas.
Features:A basic introduction to general principles important to medication therapy management begins the book, which then covers the most pertinent disease states and therapeutic issues. The book is divided into sections according to organ system with individual chapters addressing specific disease states. Its best feature is the way it is designed to provide the information in a clinical context. It is potentially difficult to present disease states and their drug therapy options in a case-based format and still be able to cover all details and nuances, but this book is extremely successful. It helps readers to put the information in the context of treatment and consider not only the general recommendations but also specific patient characteristics that are pertinent to implementation of drug therapy. Tables and illustrations throughout each chapter are also available online as a reference for students andfaculty/clinicians.
Assessment:The ninth edition is a necessary replacement of the previous edition since new therapies and guidelines have been published since 2005. The content of this book is not unique to the pharmacy library, but the way in which the information is presented is unique and beneficial for the reader. Readers who learn better from applying information will find this book helpful in learning about disease states and their drug therapy and, particularly, how to apply the information to patient-specific scenarios.

Biography

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Pharm.D.; Editor; Dean and Professor, TJ Long Chair in Chain Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco

Lloyd Yee Young, PharmD; Editor; Professor and Chair Dept of Clinical Pharmacy, TA Oliver Educational Chair in Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Univ of California at San Francisco.

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD., Assistant Editor; Professor of Clinical Pharmacy. Vice Chair of Scholarship, Department of Clinical Pharmacy. First Year on UCSF Faculty: 1979 Education: Bachelor of Science, Biology, University of Santa Clara, 1973. Pharm.D., University of Southern California, 1978. Resident in Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, 1978-79. Licensure: Licentiate in Pharmacy, California, 1978 Specialty: Infectious Diseases, Critical Care.

Wayne A. Kradjan, PharmD.; Assistant Editor; joined OSU in January 1999, as Dean of the College of Pharmacy. His academic interests and classroom teaching relate to the pharmacotherapeutic applications of adult general medicine. Dr. Kradjan's research interests, publications and lecturing include the pharmacokinetics and therapeutic effects of bronchodilators and oral hypoglycemic agents, and disease management of heart failure, lipid disorders, peptic ulcer disease, GERD, and hepatitis. He was the principal investigator on two grants to assess the effects of community pharmacists' interventions on therapeutic outcomes in patients with asthma and served as a consultant to the Washington State Professional Review Organization Heart Failure Management Program. He is a the author of the chapters on Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; section editor for the cardiovascular, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal-hepatic sections of the textbook Applied Therapeutics- The Clinical Use of Drugs; and is a co-editor of the companion handbook for the same text. Before assuming his responsibilities at OSU, Dr. Kradjan was on the faculty at the University of Washington for 28 years having served at various times as Director of the School's post baccalaureate Pharm.D. program, Chairman of the Department of Pharmacy, and Associate Dean for Professional Programs. He was a visiting faculty to the University of Manchester in England in 1980. Dr. Kradjan also has extensive experience providing clinical service and teaching on general internal medicine services at an academic health science center and a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.