Minor Illness or Major Disease?: The Clinical Pharmacist in the Community - Softcover

Addison, Brian; Brown, Alyson; Edwards, Ruth; Gray, Gwen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853699615 ISBN 13: 9780853699613

Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press, 2012

Synopsis

Minor Illness or Major Disease? is a well-established undergraduate textbook covering the diagnosis and management of the illnesses and diseases frequently encountered in community pharmacy practice. It aids the pharmacist in differentiating between minor illnesses which can be safely managed in the pharmacy and major diseases that require referral to a medical practitioner. This new edition has been completely revised and restructured by a new team of authors with a foreword by all four UK chief pharmaceutical officers. The fifth edition: arranges the illnesses in BNF chapter order to facilitate easy cross reference; includes a chapter on nutrition; utilises a problem-based learning approach; has trigger cases, management options, pharmacists and General Practitioner opinions, self assessment questions, summary of key points and key referral criteria. Minor Illness or Major Disease? is an invaluable textbook for pharmacy undergraduate and pre-registration students and also serves as an essential aid to all community pharmacists.

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Review:

Grace Hatton, BPSA Eastern Area Coordinator, BPSA e-newsletter, May 2012: "The book is, thankfully, easily navigable and readable, and thus of great benefit in quick referral, it additionally allow for self-assessment with use of a series of reflective questions to encourage learning not only as an undergraduate but as a qualified professional...The authorship is comprehensible and non-patronising, with further counseling options also noted within specific chapters linking the core scientific knowledge to practical reality." Patrick J. McDonnell, Pharm.D., Doody's Notes, May 2012: "an excellent introductory chapter explaining the role of pharmacists in the community...The book makes use of handy, user-friendly tables, chapter summaries and other features...This would be a useful companion book for those studying pharmacy and it could be helpful in course work in ambulatory care and /or used as a supplement for students in their ambulatory and /or community practice experiences"

About this edition

• Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0853699615
• ISBN 13: 9780853699613
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 256