Patient Assessment in Clinical Pharmacy - A Comprehensive Guide

This comprehensive, first-of-its kind title is an indispensable resource for pharmacists looking to learn or improve crucial patient assessment skills relevant to all pharmacy practice settings. Pharmacists' role as health care practitioners is evolving as they are taking a more active part in primary patient care -- helping patients manage their medications and diseases, providing patient education, and, in some jurisdictions, prescribing and adapting medications.  To perform their day-to-day duties, pharmacists are best-served using a framework called the patient care process. This framework involves three steps: patient assessment; care plan development and implementation; and monitoring and follow up. Organized in four parts, this practical book begins with introductory chapters regarding the basics of patient assessment and the patient care process. Part II includes a detailed assessment of common symptoms encountered by pharmacists.  Part III discusses assessment of patients with various chronic illnesses.  Part IV addresses select specialized topics and assessment considerations.  An invaluable contribution to the literature, Patient Assessment in Clinical Pharmacy: A Comprehensive Guide will be of great benefit to pharmacists, regardless of their practice setting, and to pharmacy students as well.  




Sherif Hanafy Mahmoud, BSc (Pharm), MSc, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta
3-142H Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research
11361 - 87 Ave 

Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1
Sherif is an academic, teacher, researcher and neurocritical care clinical pharmacist, with 17 years of experience in clinical pharmacy and pharmacokinetics. He is a clinical assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Alberta. He had his BSc (pharm) and Master degree in Clinical Pharmacy from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He received his PhD degree in pharmacokinetics at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta. He teaches neurology, advanced therapeutics and patient assessment at the Faculty. In addition, he has 10 years of institutional pharmacy practice experience at the University of Alberta Hospital. His research focus is in the area of translational pharmacotherapy specifically optimization of drug therapy in neurological emergencies and epilepsy. Sherif is a recipient of several awards and has several publications throughout career.