Drug Treatment Protocols

Nurse Practitioner, Apr 2000

Drug Treatment Protocols. The American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA). The 44 drug treatment protocols in this book begin with a presumed diagnosis and then describe pharmacotherapeutic and pharmaceutical care choices. A decision tree and explanatory text outline a step-by-step process that helps users make clinically appropriate, cost-effective drug therapy decisions.

The protocolsdeveloped by physicians, pharmacists, and nursesare designed for clinicians to adapt to meet specific needs and to address specific patient populations. Because the protocols begin with a confirmed diagnosis, clinicians can integrate them into broad clinical pathways and comprehensive disease management initiatives to provide decision support for drug therapy selection, initiation, and monitoring. $160 for members, $200 for nonmembers. Washington, D.C., APhA, 1999.