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Pharmacy and the US health care system /

Pharmacy and the US Healthcare System is a one-stop textbook of current information about the features of the US healthcare system. It covers the personnel and institutions, along with concise reports on trends, regulations policy and finance.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, Michael I. (Michael Ira), Wertheimer, Albert I., Fincham, Jack E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Pharmaceutical Press, [2013]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Pharmaceutical Services.
Delivery of Health Care.
Pharmacy > organization & administration.
Pharmacy > trends.
United States.
Pharmaceutical policy > United States.
Pharmaceutical services > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Health and health care in the United States
  • Financing US health care
  • Managed care pharmacy
  • The health professions
  • Pharmacists and US health care
  • Pharmacy organizations
  • Emerging roles
  • Political realities of pharmacy
  • Hospital and health care institutions
  • Pharmacist role in long-term care
  • The research manufacturing pharmaceutical industry
  • Drug distribution
  • The consumers of health care
  • The drug use process
  • Patient safety and pharmacovigilance
  • Provisions of care to subpopulations : a cultural perspective
  • Professionalism and ethics
  • Health information technology : emerging challenges for pharmacy
  • Unresolved issues in pharmacy : imagining the future
  • The future.