Pharmaceutical Care Issues of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Fro
This book presents concise, comprehensive summaries of topics necessary to understand rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management, aligned with patient needs, as a reference suitable for practitioners and students of all levels. Special attention is paid to the
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Pharmaceutical Care Issues of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis From Hospital to Community
Pharmaceutical Care Issues of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Louise Grech • Alan Lau Editors
Pharmaceutical Care Issues of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis From Hospital to Community
Editors Louise Grech Department of Pharmacy University of Malta Msida Malta
Alan Lau Pharmacy Practice International Clinical Pharmacy Education University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago Illinois USA
ISBN 978-981-10-1420-8 ISBN 978-981-10-1421-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1421-5
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Dedicated to all rheumatoid arthritis patients
Foreword
Management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often carried out subjectively by healthcare professionals, sometimes, resulting in less than optimal outcomes. This book undertakes to shift practice from these systems towards meeting patients’ needs whilst responding to economic, regulatory and pharmaceutical care forces, using clinical experience while following the rules of evidence. The goals of this book are to enhance pharmacists’ ability to make intelligent professional judgements regarding best practices in RA with emphasis on the patient, drawing on the knowledge of drug therapy, and to encourage the development of specialisation within pharmacy practice in RA without neglecting the holistic approach to patient care. These goals are achieved by giving examples of ways to extend the pharmacists’ practice from hospitals to other settings through seamless care. All these functions may be reached through the stimulation of two pillars of academia, namely, teaching and research activities and their relevance to translational medicine as regards t
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