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By Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Lists drug actions and interactions, describes drug therapy for children and the elderly, and provides details for the use of five thousand drugs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582554048
• ISBN13: 9781582554044
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 1394 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.9" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Organized presentation, but...

I went to look up Zarontin, and it wasn't in this book (had obscure information under ethosuximide, though). It is a commonly prescribed to control absence seizures. So I'd like to know why this drug wasn't in there. I went to make a suggestion to the publisher, and you have to fill out a questionaire to be a reviewer. I'm not going to go through all that to share a helpful suggestion. It's wonderful, otherwise, but a common drug exclusion made me wish I had purchased another drug reference.

Useful, well-organized & well-written; neat CD for patient guidance

As a physician, I used to turn to the PDR for drug guidance, but it seems that only the profitable [ie, proprietary] drugs are listed there. I've often used my RN wife's NDH, recently replaced by the 2006 version. Try to find niacin (for hypercholesterolemia) in the PDR for instance - whereas the NDH has a compact yet thorough description of indications, dosing, adverse effects and fundamental pharmacology. The little CD enclosed prepares patient information on some 200 common drugs. All told, this is a neat yet compact drug reference guide. Not inexpensive, but highly recommended.

Nursing 2006 Drug Handbook

A former student of mine, when I was an English teacher in Ethiopia, is currently in the medical school in Gondar, Ethiopia. He requested a book which would describe medicine and would also list possible side-effects. This book seems to fit his need. I'm mailing it to him to be used in Ethiopia as he practices medicine there.

Nursing 2006 Drug Handbook

I have used this product for years in my nursing practice. I depend upon the "Nursing Considerations" section to assist me with patient teaching and care planning.

Nursing - Drug Handbook 2006

This is an excellent resource for both professional and paraprofessionals who are administering medications. I particularily like the patient teaching section. I like the disk for printing drug information pages, which I place with the medication administration record for all staff to read.