Product Description
Concise and portable, it's ideal for point-of-care decisions
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
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