Avery's Drug Treatment

By Nicholas H. Holford and Trevor M. Speight

Avery's Drug Treatment is a unique guide to the rational choice, use, and effects of drugs in current disease management. The textbook bridges the gap between standard texts on pharmacology and medicine. Topics discussed are: the clinical pharmaocological basis of therapeutics; the selection and rational use of drugs for specific diseases; the influence of associated or concomitant illness on drug kinetics and responses; diseases caused or exacerbated by drugs; the principles and methods of pharmacoeconomics; pharmacoepidemiology and outcomes; and new dimensions in current drug use. This new edition has 34 fully updated chapters to reflect important new drugs and therapeutic advances--many supplied with disease-management guidelines written by world experts. Since the last edition, additional chapters have been added on: drug development and approval processes; pharmacoeconomics and drug prescribing; immune system disorders; and pharmacoepidemiology. Finally, there are valuable new appendix compilations on drugs in breast milk, pharmacokinetic drug data, drug interactions, drug dosages in renal failure and drug dosages in liver disease.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864710364
• ISBN13: 9780864710369
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 1852 Pages
• Weight: 6.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.6" x 3.0" x 7.1"