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Everyday Guide to Managing Your Medicines

Author(s): Jack E. Fincham, PhD, RPh, Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, University of Missouri - Kansas City
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763751012
  • ISBN-10:0763751014
  • Paperback    205 pages      © 2008
Price: International Sales $37.95 US List
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Overview

Doctors and pharmacists spend years studying to become eligible for state licensure, yet patients are expected to know a lot about their drugs without much provided information. It is often assumed that patients know about their drugs and classifications, but this is not usually the case. Most patients, especially senior citizens, don't understand their medications, medication treatments, and underlying disease states. Written to help patients and their families, caregivers, and health professionals, this resource offers all of the answers to your questions and empowers patients to be participants in their health care decision-making.

 

General topics include:

  • Common diseases and treatments
  • Understanding drugs and their use
  • What your caregivers need to know about your health
  • Do's and don'ts of drugs
  • Tips to enhance compliance with your medications
  • Getting your drugs and drug taking in order
  • Over-the-counter pain relief drugs
  • Drug-drug interactions
  • Drug-herbal interactions
  • Complementary and alternative medicine
  • Antibiotics
  • Resources to help with Medicare Part D
  • Issues that affect everyday medicine-taking

 

ShowTable of Contents

Chapter 1 General Principles of Drug Use

Chapter 2 Understanding Drugs and Their Use

Chapter 3 Do’s and Don’ts with Drugs                          

Chapter 4 Drug–Drug Interactions

Chapter 5 Drug–Herbal Product Interactions                                                                                         
 Chapter 6 Tips to Improve Compliance

Chapter 7 Antibiotics

Chapter 8 Arthritis

Chapter 9 Cholesterol

Chapter 10 Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Chapter 11 Congestive Heart Failure

Chapter 12 Depression

Chapter 13 Diabetes

Chapter 14 Hypertension

Chapter 15 Osteoporosis

Chapter 16 Other Resources Available for Medicare Recipients

Chapter 17 Over-the-Counter Analgesics

Chapter 18 Resources to Help You with the Medicare Drug Benefit

Chapter 19 What Your Caregivers Need to Know About Your Health

 

Glossary of commonly used terms (related to numerous medications and diseases)

 


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Jack E. Fincham, PhD, RPh-Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Dr. Jack E. Fincham is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy, and was a Kellogg Pharmaceutical Clinical Scientist Fellow at the University of Minnesota where he obtained his Ph.D. in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.   He completed a Post-Graduate Certificate Degree in Health Economics at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Dr. Fincham has researched varying topics pertaining to health economics, international health, patient compliance, public health, medication management, avoiding medication risks, the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit, and drug use in the elderly.  

Dr. Fincham has authored over 200 refereed and professional manuscripts published in over 50 journals, and has made over 200 professional and research presentations to allied health, dental, medical, information technology, nursing, pharmacy, and public health professional groups from Asia, Australia, Canada, the Republic of China, Europe, Turkey, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  Dr. Fincham has written ten books including: The Medicare Part D Drug Program: Making the Most of the Benefit, and an Everyday Guide to Managing Your Medicines both published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers.  He serves as the inaugural editor-in-chief of the Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC www.teachprevention.org) sponsored by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research.

Dr. Fincham currently serves as Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, the University of Missouri – Kansas City, School of Pharmacy; and as Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Georgia, College of Public Health.   From 1994-2004, Dr. Fincham served as dean of the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy. 

 

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  • The content of the Everyday Guide to Managing Your Medicines is valuable and comprehensive, while remaining concise and useful for the intended audience. The author’s credentials and position as a professor of pharmacy practice lend credibility to the content...The author does an excellent job providing basic information about a variety of aspects of medications, keeping it simple and subsequently offering additional resources (websites, organizations, etc.) for those who wish to obtain more information....Everyday Guide to Managing Your Medicines provides a useful resource for patients, families, and care providers by offering an extensive array of information about medicines and medicine-taking in one concise source. In addition to being a handbook for the layperson, the book could also serve as a resource for pharmacists, nurses, and physicians who work with groups of older adults to teach them how to safely and correctly take medications.
                                                                    ~     Sharon Williams Utz, PhD, RN,     Associate Professor, University of Virginia
                                                                                                  from the review in Family and Community Health

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