Handbook of Institutional Pharmacy Practice

This comprehensive text provides fundamental information on a broad spectrum of essential topics in health-system pharmacy practice. From an overview of health delivery systems and hospital pharmacy through various practice settings such as home care, long term care, hospice and palliative care, ambulatory care, and managed care this text focuses on various elements important to health-system pharmacies. The Handbook of Institutional Pharmacy Practice is the first step in developing a career in pharmacy and provides opportunities for study in career enhancement. New chapters included in the fourth edition: Integrity of the Drug Supply Overview of the History of Hospital Pharmacy in the United States Interprofessional Teams/Collaborative Practice Models Development, Implementation and Monitoring Therapeutic Plans and Evidence-Based Medicine