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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, DC – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) recently published the 17th edition of the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care. The textbook is unique in its comprehensive, authoritative examination of all self-care options—nonprescription medications, nutritional supplements, medical foods, complementary therapies and nondrug and preventive measures—for patients’ self-treatable disorders. First published in 1967 and most recently in 2009, the Handbook has been revised and updated throughout.
Key enhancements include a new chapter, “Self-Care Components of Selected Chronic Disorders,” focusing on the self-care aspects of diabetes, asthma, osteoporosis, heart failure, hypertension and dyslipidemia; two new appendixes that cover the safe use of nonprescription medications, nutritional supplements and natural products during pregnancy; and vaccine information in several disease-related chapters.
The 17th edition shows students and practitioners how to assess and triage a patient’s health complaint. And it provides FDA-approved dosing information for nonprescription medications along with evidence-based research on efficacy and safety considerations of nonprescription, herbal, and homeopathic medications. The book is designed for all clinicians, including pharmacists, physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, plus students in those disciplines.
The hardbound textbook (ISBN 978-1-58212-160-4; 1,051 pages) may be purchased for $179.95 ($144.00 for APhA members) through APhA’s toll-free order department at (800) 878-0729 or online at www.pharmacist.com/shop_apha. Pharmacy school faculty who wish to consider the book for classroom adoption may request a desk copy via APhA’s Web site (http://fs11.formsite.com/aphabooks/reviewcopy/index.html).
The book is uniform in organization from chapter to chapter and includes quick reference tools such as treatment algorithms (including exclusions for self-treatment), drug product tables, patient education sidebars and product administration illustrations. A color plate section contains more than 50 illustrations.
A fully searchable version of the book is available online as part of APhA’s PharmacyLibrary subscription platform (www.pharmacylibrary.com). In addition to instructor resources to support use of the textbook, PharmacyLibrary now contains QuEST/SCHOLAR–MAC based case studies that supplement the patient assessment tool found in the book’s therapeutic chapters. The QuEST/SCHOLAR–MAC cases are available only on PharmacyLibrary.
For information on individual subscriptions to PharmacyLibrary, go to https://store.pharmacylibrary.com/; for information on institutional subscriptions, contact [email protected].
Seventy-three health professionals from various disciplines and practice settings who have expertise in nonprescription medications and devices and other self-care options authored the book’s 52 chapters. Ensuring balance, thoroughness and currency, more than 150 carefully selected peer reviewers scrutinized the book’s contents.
Daniel L. Krinsky, MS, RPh, Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Pharmacy, Rootstown, Ohio, served as editor-in-chief. Six other experts in self-care and nonprescription pharmacotherapy served as editors of such sections as Pain and Fever Disorders; Reproductive and Genital Disorders; Respiratory Disorders; Gastrointestinal Disorders; Nutrition and Nutritional Supplementation; Ophthalmic, Otic and Oral Disorders; Dermatologic Disorders; Home Medical Equipment; and Complementary Therapies.
The associate editors were Rosemary R. Berardi, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor; Stefanie P. Ferreri, PharmD, CDE, University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill; Anne Lamont Hume, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, Kingston; Gail D. Newton, PhD, RPh, Purdue University College of Pharmacy, West Lafayette, Ind.; Carol J. Rollins, MS, RD, PharmD, BCNSP, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, Tucson; and Karen J. Tietze, PharmD, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at University of the Sciences.
About the American Pharmacists Association
The American Pharmacists Association, founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association, is a 501 (c)(6) organization, representing more than 62,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and others interested in advancing the profession. APhA, dedicated to helping all pharmacists improve medication use and advance patient care, is the first-established and largest association of pharmacists in the United States.
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