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Product Description

Alan Mutnick, Tina M. Hisel, Jacqueline D. Joss, and Beth Bryles Phillips

Hypertension Management is an innovative publication that gives pharmacists and other health care professionals the essential information needed to provide optimal medication therapy to hypertensive patients, as well as information on how to successfully integrate care with all members of the patient care team.

The book combines comprehensive coverage of a wide range of specific topics relating to hypertension with guidance in conveying important concepts, knowledge, and advice to patients. The result is a highly useful tool for successfully managing all aspects of care for hypertensive patients.

Among the topics discussed in this publication are pathophysiology, measuring blood pressure, assessment of target organ damage, identification of goals, risk stratification, non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic treatments, developing and implementing a monitoring plan, patient education, referral to other health care providers, and pharmacoeconomics. Throughout the text, actual patient cases are used to illustrate key points.

Additionally, all clinical content presented fully complies with the latest JNC 7 guidelines (The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure).

Benefits:

• Supplements your knowledge of various specific aspects of hypertension
• Helps you convey important concepts, knowledge and advice to patients
• Gives you the tools to provide the most effective patient care, help patients better understand and comply with their medication therapy, and allow them to meet their blood pressure goals through appropriate lifestyle modifications

P715
ISBN: 978-1-58528-052-0
2004; Approx. 168 pages; softbound

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