Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach (Paperback)

by Terry L. Schwinghammer (Author, Editor), Joseph T. Dipiro (Editor), Robert L. Talbert (Editor), Gary C. Yee (Editor), Gary R. Matzke (Editor), Barbara G. Wells (Editor), L Michael Posey (Editor)

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Review
"The Pharmacotherapy Casebook should be seriously considered as a required text for pharmacotherapeutics courses. Those educational programs wishing to incorporate more student-centered learning experiences will find this book to be an invaluable resource. The complementary nature of the textbook, which focuses on content, and the casebook which focuses on content, and the casebook, which focuses on the problem-solving process, allows almost limitless flexibility of use in a number of different learning environment." (The Annals of Pharmacotherapy ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
The companion volume to the market leading Dipiro et al Pharmacotherapy features over 100 new cases that foster problem-solving skills and clinical decision-making prowess in clinical pharmacy practice. Each case gives the student or practitioner a thorough review of identification of findings and assessments, desired outcomes, therapeutic alternatives, optimal plans, assessment parameters, and patient counseling.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Appleton & Lange; 2nd edition (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0838581544
• ISBN-13: 978-0838581544
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,377,166 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good study aid, February 25, 2007

By	Sara White (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach (Paperback)

I have used this book to aid my studies in therapeutics. While professors gave some cases, the cases in this book helped immensely to get the information down pat.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cases have no recommended solutions to learn from, February 23, 2009

By	S. M. Lyons - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach (PHARMACOTHERAPY CASEBOOK ( SCHWINGHAMMER)) (Paperback)

This product looked great from the reviews. However, once received and opened, as mentioned in other reviews, there are no answers, recommendations, or even considerations given to each case. To draw an analogy, it is like having a calculus book that gives you a complex problem and says, you figure out the answer and then provides not even a method to consider for the problem or if your calculations are even on the right path.

The reader is presented with, 'Here is the problem,' but no answer. The book mentions that it is designed to be used in group discussion and students should figure out if it is correct as a group. If you don't have a PharmD around to mentor and check your solution, you are out of luck and will gain no learning value from it as someone looking to learn pharmacotherapy using cases as the basis.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pharmacotherapy casebook with no answers., November 20, 2008

By	Raggamuffin McGee (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach (PHARMACOTHERAPY CASEBOOK ( SCHWINGHAMMER)) (Paperback)

I purchased this item along with the Pharmacotherapy text book. It provides a number of scenarios for each chapter. The first scenario is relatively easy, the second is pretty tough to work through. The negative part of this is that it doesn't tell you the answers to the cases, nor the best way to go about getting to the answer. It does show you that everything isn't a text book case. Some of the cases are very random, just like patients are going to be. I guess it provides a real life lesson, sometimes there is no best answer and the true judgement is in the eyes of the practitioner. Nevertheless, I still gave it an ok rating because I'm trying to learn the material and this is just a bunch of scenarios with no answers.