Practicing pharmacists are confronted with perspectives from many individuals who define how they prefer to receive health care. The second book in the PSAP-V series, Health Care Stakeholders, provides the roles and perspectives of patients, payers, accreditation agencies and regulatory bodies, the pharmaceutical industry, and their interrelationships as they affect and are affected by pharmacy practice. This book:

• Outlines the issues patients face regarding prescription drug coverage through indemnity or Health Maintenance Organizations benefits
• Reviews the history and up-to-date information regarding a Medicare-funded pharmacy benefit and the significant role played by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the health of the nation
• Provides recommendations to improve medication safety and the role of the patient, pharmacist, health system, physician, employer, and payer in each
• Characterizes the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the medication use cycle from drug inception to achievement of a therapeutic outcome/adverse effect in a patient
• Explains the role of the Food and Drug Administration in drug development and approval
• Describes the role of pharmacy accreditation in shaping the education of the present and future workforce.

Filled with resources and web access to key issues affecting practicing pharmacists, this book is an essential reference for educators, clinicians, and administrators.

Other topics covered in the 11-book series include Cardiology; Psychiatry; Geriatrics; Special Populations; the Science and Practice of Pharmacotherapy; Infectious Diseases; Chronic Illnesses; Gastroenterology; Nutrition; Pediatrics; Oncology; Critical Care; and Transplantation.

PSAP is dedicated to offering the most up-to-date and comprehensive information available on recent drug therapy advances. Each book will further your knowledge in the therapeutic area it covers. PSAP is available in both print and online versions.

Publisher: ACCP, Softbound, April 2004, ISBN: 1-932658-03-3

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