Patient Counseling Handbook

A counselling handbook providing essential drug usage information for patients. Monographs in this concise guide are abstracted from the 1998 "USP DI Vol 1: Drug Information for the Health Care Professional". Features of the handbook include: practical counselling essentials for the most widely-prescribed medications; alphabetical entries listed by individual drug or drug family name, noting which drugs are systemic; and monographs divided into two major sections - "For the Pharmacists" contains pharmacological information for patient counselling, and "For the Patient" contains information written in consumer-oriented language.