PDR Pharmacopoeia Pocket Dosing Guide 2008

by Physicians' Desk Reference

Concise and portable, it's ideal for point-of-care decisions

A Harvard study reveals that wrong dosing occurs three times more frequently than any other type of medication error. The PDR Pharmacopoeia Pocket Dosing Guide 2008 was specifically designed to help avoid such potentially critical mistakes by making dosing information accessible wherever the practitioner may be.

Now all the necessary dosing information is right in the palm of your

FDA-approved dosing recommendations come directly from PDR, the most respected drug information resource for 62 years

Contains more than 1,200 chemical/biological entities, including recently approved drugs

Clear, easy-to-read tabular format throughout

Organized by indication and therapeutic class to provide ready comparisons to similarly prescribed drugs

Indexed by indication as well as therapeutic class and drug name

Includes summaries of black box warnings

Notes when dosing adjustments are required for renally and hepatically impaired patients

Provides FDA-approved pediatric dosage on all drugs for which such dosing exists

Includes special reference tables for various drugs and conditions, including the treatment of hypertension (JNC 7) and tuberculosis

Includes symbols to indicate warnings for use in pregnant or nursing women

Genres: Reference

300 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2001

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful pocket sized book with the only flaw being you need to know what your looking for under the trade names because those are the only names listed in the index.