Clinical Pharmacy and Patient Education Poston Bonal Paperback 9780521279161

Clinical Pharmacy and Patient EducationProceedings of the 12th European Symposium on Clinical Pharmacy, Barcelona 1983\nAuthor(s): J. W. Poston, Joaquin Bonal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521279161, 978-0521279161\nSynopsis\nThis 1984 book, part of the series Progress in Clinical Pharmacy, provides an authoritative account of developments in clinical pharmacy in Europe. It is prefaced by chapters on the American experience in clinical pharmacy education and on patient education. The book reports the proceedings of the twelfth European symposium on clinical pharmacy, held in Barcelona in October 1983. Two of the great challenges facing pharmacy were how better to educate pharmacists to fulfil a clinical or extended role in healthcare and how to meet an important part of such a role, that is the better education of patients in the use of medicines. These two complementary topics were the twi.