Pharmaceutical Calculations

Retaining the successful previous editions' programmed instructional format, this book improves and updates an authoritative textbook to keep pace with compounding trends and calculations addressing real-world calculations pharmacists perform and allowing students to learn at their own pace through examples.

Reviews of the 4th Edition:

"…a well-structured approach to the topic…"
(Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, No. 1, 2006)

"...a perfectly organized manual that serves as an expert guide…"
(Electric Review, November/December 2005)

Updated and improved in a 5th Edition, Pharmaceutical Calculations retains the logical, programmed format that has become the hallmark of this textbook. Used successfully by pharmacy students and professionals for several decades, this classic text encourages an active learning approach to tackling and solving calculation problems.

Features in this new edition include:

• A self-paced and active learning approach that allows students to reinforce and build on previously learned concepts, with specific learning objectives and practice questions in each chapter
• Significant rearrangement of chapters and rewrite of topics from the previous edition, making content ideal for textbook use in a typical dosage calculations course for any health care professional
• Added practice problems (NAPLEX-patterned) to reflect real practice situations a pharmacist and/or other health care professionals will encounter when working in various settings
• A new chapter dedicated to practical calculations used in contemporary compounding, new appendices, and solutions and answers for all problems

Pharmaceutical Calculations, 5th Edition reflects the modern trends and practices in pharmaceutical education and incorporates the most recent changes in pharmacy practice. The text effectively helps students master the essential methods for calculation and measurement of pharmaceuticals. This clear, comprehensive resource presents a highly practical description of pharmaceutical calculations that focuses on day-to-day professional needs. It is an ideal primary text for students of pharmacy, as well as an invaluable reference for professionals.

Retaining the successful previous editions' programmed instructional format, this book improves and updates an authoritative textbook to keep pace with compounding trends and calculations – addressing real-world calculations pharmacists perform and allowing students to learn at their own pace through examples.

• Connects well with the current emphasis on self-paced and active learning in pharmacy schools
• Adds a new chapter dedicated to practical calculations used in contemporary compounding, new appendices, and solutions and answers for all problems
• Maintains value for teaching pharmacy students the principles while also serving as a reference for review by students in preparation for licensure exams
• Rearranges chapters and rewrites topics of the previous edition, making its content ideal to be used as the primary textbook in a typical dosage calculations course for any health care professional
• Reviews of the prior edition: "...a well-structured approach to the topic..." (Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy) and "...a perfectly organized manual that serves as a expert guide..." (Electric Review)