Pharmatecture
Subtitle: minimizing medications to maximize results
By: Gideon Bosker
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Facts and Comparisons
Published: 1999
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations; Administration & dosage; Drug Therapy; Drugs; Prescribing; Chemotherapy; Drug interactions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1 Pharmatecture: a systematic approach to pharmacologic assessment and drug regimen design; title: Ch. 2. Construction of drug regimens: pharmatectural principles put into practice; title: Ch. 3. The drug and disease incompatibility profile (DIP) system: mixing and matching pharmacologic building blocks; title: Ch. 4. Building an outcome-effective drug regimen: pearls and pitfalls; title: Ch. 5. Pharmatectural strategies for antimicrobial selection: the PPD (prescription resistance, patient resistance, and drug resistance) system.; title: Ch. 6. Cocktails for cardioprotection: a systematic approach for improving morbidity, mortality, and functional status with prevention-based pharmacotherapy in heart disease; title: Ch. 7. The DRESC program: streamlining drug regimens through drug reduction, elimination, simplification, and consolidation; title: Ch. 8. Streamlining drug therapy in clinical practice: a systematic approach to drug regimen design; title: Ch. 9. Pharmatectural strategies for cardiovascular drug therapy and disease prevention in the elderly.; title: Ch. 10. Pharmatectural strategies for psychiatric, arthritic, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal drug therapy in the elderly.