This book aims to equip pharmacists with the knowledge and skills required to discharge their clinical pharmacy practice responsibilities in the Indian scenario. The focus is on providing information about how clinical pharmacy is practiced rather than what they need to know about drugs and therapeutics.

Completely revised and updated, this edition includes four new chapters: Community Pharmacy Practice, Medication Use in Pregnancy and Lactation, Ethical Issues in Clinical Research and Poison Information.  These chapters address practice areas of great relevance to Indian pharmacists and result in a more comprehensive text overall.

A balanced mix of content, case studies, references and website links has been provided to make the topics as clear and interesting to the reader as possible. Additional appendices comprise laboratory reference values for adults and how to take medication history.

• New and revised chapters
• Additional tables, sample forms and appendices
• Learning objectives and key messages for every chapter
• New case studies, practice scenarios and exercises
• Updated glossary

G Parthasarathi is Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS University, Mysore, India

Karin Nyfort-Hansen is a Clinical Pharmacist at the Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

Milap C Nahata is Professor and Chair of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1. Clinical Pharmacy in India BG Nagavi
2. Clinical Pharmacy: An International Perspective Christopher Doecke
3. Community Pharmacy Practice BG Nagavi, Ramesh Adepu and Grant Kardachi
4. Key Competencies for Clinical Pharmacy Practice David Cosh and G Parthasarathi
5. Communication Skills for Pharmacists Ruth Ferguson
6. Patient Counselling Ramesh Adepu
7. Medication Adherence PA Mahesh and G Parthasarathi
8. Essential Medicines and Rational Drug Use Gitanjali Batmanabane and Krisantha Weerasuriya
9. Adverse Drug Reactions and Pharmacovigilance Sten Olsson and G Parthasarathi
10. Drug Interactions Ruth Ferguson
11. Interpreting Laboratory Data: Biochemistry and Haematology Christopher P Alderman
12. Interpreting Laboratory Data: Infectious Diseases Jeff Hughes
13. Medication Review M Ramesh
14. Ward Round Participation Johnson George
15. Paediatric Pharmacy Practice Vinita Pai and Milap C Nahata
16. Clinical Pharmacy for Geriatric Patients Rohan A Elliott
17. Medication Use in Pregnancy and Lactation Katy E Trinkley and Milap C Nahata
18. Critical Appraisal: How to Read a Research Paper Karin Nyfort-Hansen
19. Drug Information M Ramesh and Graeme M Vernon
20. Poison Information M Ramesh and Shobha Churi
21. Clinical Pharmacokinetics Roger L Nation and Craig R Rayner
22. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Stefan Kowalski and Karin Nyfort-Hansen
23. Continuing Professional Development David Cosh
24. Ethical Issues in Clinical Research Urmila Thatte
25. Research in Clinical Pharmacy Milap C Nahata
26. Drug Utilisation Evaluation BS Sathvik
27. Pharmacoepidemiology Jayashri Sankaranarayanan and Thomas R Einarson
28. Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Philip J Schneider
29. Pharmacoeconomics: Theory, Research and Practice Duska Franic, Anandi V Law and Dev S Pathak
30. Development of Therapeutic Guidelines Renee Robinson and Milap C Nahata

- Prof. B Suresh
President, Pharmacy Council of India