Community Pharmacy: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

• Completely revised and updated throughout, this new edition of the best-selling title in community pharmacy continues to provide an essential reference for undergraduate and pre-registration pharmacy trainees.

  Features:

  • New sections on menstrual bleeding and weight loss.
  • Clearly structured by basic anatomy, history-taking and body system.
  • Fully illustrated throughout.
  • Boxes throughout: trigger points indicative of referral; hints and tips.
  • Tables throughout: differential diagnosis (key questions for each condition); evidence-based OTC medication; practical prescribing; product selection.
  • Self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter.
  • Expanded case studies at the end of each chapter

• Covers all the most common conditions and gives evidence to back up over-the-counter (OTC) recommendations.
  
• Puts the presenting symptoms into the primary-care context.


• Suggests which questions to ask to narrow down the possible diagnoses.


• Gives schematic summaries of how to arrive at a diagnosis.


• Evidence-based boxes as a guide for OTC medication.


• Practical prescribing summary tables.


• Hints and tips boxes for product use.


• Self-assessment sections.
• Case studies at the end of chapters.


• Colour images of important conditions.


• Chapter on specific product requests.
  
• Useful websites.

Completely revised and updated throughout, this new edition of the best-selling title in community pharmacy continues to provide an essential reference for undergraduate and pre-registration pharmacy trainees.

Features:

• New sections on menstrual bleeding and weight loss.
• Clearly structured by basic anatomy, history-taking and body system.
• Fully illustrated throughout.
• Boxes throughout: trigger points indicative of referral; hints and tips.
• Tables throughout: differential diagnosis (key questions for each condition); evidence-based OTC medication; practical prescribing; product selection.
• Self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter.
• Expanded case studies at the end of each chapter

Paul Rutter is Professor in Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.