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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 hand: • 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 Publisher: Thomson Healthcare Pub. Date: September 2007 ISBN-13: 9781563636677 |
