To assist you in developing a mastery of evidence-based medicine for optimal patient outcomes, here is a new edition of Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, Seventh Edition. The scope of this resource goes beyond drug indications and dosages to include the initial selection, proper administration, and monitoring of drugs. Long the gold standard text for assessing new drugs and new evidence-based therapeutic approaches, Pharmacotherapy provides a resource for providing safe, efficacious drug therapy across the full range of therapeutic categories. The pathophysiology sections identify the mechanism of disease as a foundation for pharmacotherapeutic principles and strategies. Readers will find a wealth of treatment algorithms, principles of pharmacotherapy, and extensive figures and tables that serve to enhance the readability of the text, make the information easy to use, and provide clear recommendations.

NEW features for this edition include:

• Expanded evidence-based recommendations
• Extended coverage of the timely issue of palliative care and pain medicine
• Important chapters on pulmonary hypertension, disorders of calcium and phosphorus homeostasis, and multiple myeloma
• “Key Concepts” highlighted in each chapter
• “Clinical Presentation” boxes summarize the most common disease signs and symptoms covered in each chapter
• “Clinical Controversies” boxes—presented in the Treatment sections of the disease-oriented chapters—examine the complicated issues faced by students and clinicians in providing drug therapy
• Clear therapeutic recommendations in each disease-specific chapter
• “Evaluation of Therapeutic Outcomes” boxes in each disease-specific chapter, containing key monitoring guidelines that facilitate the development of a pharmaceutical, nursing, or medical care plan

Edited by Joseph T. DiPiro, Pharm.D., FCCP; Robert L. Talbert, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS; Gary C. Yee, Pharm.D., FCCP; Gary R. Matzke, Pharm.D., FCP, FCCP; Barbara G. Wells, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCCP, BCPP; and L. Michael Posey, B.S.Pharm.

ISBN: 978-0071478991; 2008; 2,784 pages; hardbound