Pharmacotherapy Casebook

Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach delivers 160 patient cases designed to teach you how to apply the principles of pharmacotherapy to real-world clinical practice. The case chapters in this book are organized into organ system sections that correspond to those of the DiPiro textbook. By reading the relevant chapters in Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach you will be able to familiarize themselves with the pathophysiology and pharmacology of each disease state included in this casebook.

• The perfect study companion to DiPiro’s: Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach
• 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 from more than 190 clinicians from nearly 100 institutions Coverage that integrates the biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with therapeutics 
• Appendices containing valuable information on pharmacy abbreviations, laboratory tests, mathematical conversion factors, anthropometrics, and complementary and alternative therapies

Each case teaches you how to:

• Identify real or potential drug therapy problems 
• Determine the desired therapeutic outcome 
• Evaluate therapeutic alternatives 
• Design an optimal individualized pharmacotherapeutic plan 
• Develop methods to evaluate the therapeutic outcome 
• Provide patient education 
• Communicate and implement the pharmacotherapeutic plan