Avery's Drug Treatment

by Trevor M. Speight, Nicholas H. Holford

Avery's Drug Treatment is a unique guide to the rational choice, use, and effects of drugs in current disease management. The textbook bridges the gap between standard texts on pharmacology and medicine. Topics discussed the clinical pharmaocological basis of therapeutics; the selection and rational use of drugs for specific diseases; the influence of associated or concomitant illness on drug kinetics and responses; diseases caused or exacerbated by drugs; the principles and methods of pharmacoeconomics; pharmacoepidemiology and outcomes; and new dimensions in current drug use. This new edition has 34 fully updated chapters to reflect important new drugs and therapeutic advances--many supplied with disease-management guidelines written by world experts. Since the last edition, additional chapters have been added drug development and approval processes; pharmacoeconomics and drug prescribing; immune system disorders; and pharmacoepidemiology. Finally, there are valuable new appendix compilations on drugs in breast milk, pharmacokinetic drug data, drug interactions, drug dosages in renal failure and drug dosages in liver disease.

1852 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 1997