evidence-based information on advances in patient care approaches and innovative practice models. The book has two learning modules. The first module covers practitioner-based skills and tools such as motivational interviewing, cultural competence, drug information retrieval, and medication therapy management. The second module focuses on innovations at the health care system level, describing new opportunities for clinical pharmacists and the potential impact of health care reform. Chapters cover the patient-centered medical home, transitions of care, quality measurements in managed care, and practice-based research networks. Each PSAP-VII chapter has an extensive annotated bibliography that identifies key research articles, clinical practice guidelines, texts, and Web sites relevant to recent developments in that particular area of pharmacotherapy. New to this edition, each chapter identifies baseline knowledge resources that can provide additional background on the topic, if needed.

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