Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data - Softcover

Mary Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585283436 ISBN 13: 9781585283439

Publisher: Amer Soc of Health-System Pharm, 2013

Synopsis

This comprehensive guide provides information about common laboratory tests used to screen or diagnose diseases, monitor the effectiveness and safety of treatment, and disease severity. It enables pharmacy students and practitioners to improve their lab test interpretation skills and deliver safer and more effective care to their patients. Each chapter contains learning objectives, case studies, bibliographies and charts that summarize the causes of high and low test results. The fifth edition offers outstanding benefits, such as: Three new chapters including new information on men's health, women's health, and pharmacogenomics and laboratory tests. Mini-cases embedded in each chapter provide therapy-related examples and reinforce important points made in the text. Quickview Charts give an overview of important clinical information including reference ranges and critical values. Learning Points focus on a clinical application of a major concept present in the chapter.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Lee, Pharm.D, BCPS, FCCP, is Vice President, Chief Academic Officer for Pharmacy and Health Sciences Education, Midwestern University, and Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Chicago College of Pharmacy. Dr. Lee graduated with BS in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and completed a residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 1977. She joined the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy in 1979, where she served as Director of the Drug Information Center and then clinical pharmacist to the urological surgery service at the hospital. In 1985, she was promoted to Associate Professor and from 1985-1990, she served as Assistant Dean of Student Affairs. In 1994, she became Associate Dean of Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy; and in 1998, she was appointed Dean. She served as Dean of the College from 1998 through 2006. Dr. Lee has published over 100 research manuscripts, book chapters, review articles, and short reports in peer-reviewed publications. She has served as an elected officer on the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Board of Regents, chair of the Clinical Section, American Pharmaceutical Association, Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science, and as chair or member of numerous committees of APhA, ACCP, and state pharmacy associations. She is considered an expert on pharmacological issues in urological diseases, has earned board certification in pharmacotherapy, has won numerous teaching awards, and received the 2010 Illinois Council of Health System Pharmacists Pharmacist of the Year Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Soc of Health-System Pharm
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585283436
• ISBN 13: 9781585283439
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Mary Lee