FP Essentials™
Drug Prescribing
#508 Edition | September 2021
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Foreword
Clinical Pharmacists in Family Medicine
New Drugs and Drug Classes in Family Medicine
Drug-Drug Interactions
Polypharmacy and Deprescribing
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In This Edition
- Summarize best practices for incorporating a clinical pharmacist into a family medicine office.
- Explain the role of an integrated clinical pharmacist, including in comprehensive medication management and billing.
- Summarize the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval process for new drugs.
- Prescribe new drugs with consideration of indication, adverse effects, cost, and patient preference.
- Describe the pharmacology of common drug interactions.
- Choose one or more strategies to prevent common drug interactions.
- Explain the difference between appropriate and inappropriate polypharmacy.
- Use clinical decision support tools to reduce inappropriate polypharmacy.