The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference
Joyce A. Generali(Author)
American Pharmacists Association (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 1. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-58212-157-4 (ISBN)
Description
Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main pieces of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of 1,100 of the most commonly prescribed drugs-including 87 drugs new to the market since the fifth edition-the book provides generic name (with pronunciation), trade name(s), therapeutic class, general FDA approved therapeutic use(s), and commercially available dosage forms/strengths. Key Features: * Five pieces of information on each of 1,100 drug products: Generic Name (with pronunciation), Trade Name(s), Therapeutic Class, General Use(s), and Dosage Forms/Strengths * The top 200 oral and topical products by retail sales, most oral and topical products approved by the FDA since 1997, plus approximately 100 of the top parenteral products * Trade name index * A top-200 drugs table providing generic and trade names and general uses
More details
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-1-58212-157-4 (9781582121574)
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Person
Author: Joyce A. Generali, BPharm, MS, FASHP, is Director, Drug Information Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City; and Clinical Professor, University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, Lawrence. She is the author or coauthor of Quick Review: Pharmacy and Prescription Drugs: Alternative Uses, Alternative Cures: Over 1,500 New Uses for FDA-Approved Drugs as well as several other books, and she is editor-in-chief of the journal Hospital Pharmacy.
Content
1. Preface 2. Prescription Drugs A-Z 3. Appendix A: Top 200 Drugs Table 4. Appendix B: Controlled Substance Schedules 5. Trade Name Index