Contents:

1. Hospital and its Organization

2. Hospital Pharmacy and its Organization

3. Adverse Drug Reactions

4. Community Pharmacy

5. Drugs Distribution System in a Hospital

6. Hospital Formulary

7. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

8. Medication Adherence

9. Patient Medication History Interview

10. Community Pharmacy Management

11. Pharmacy and Therapuetics Committee

12. Drug Information Services and Poison Information Centre

13. Patient Counseling

14. Education and Training Program in the Hospital

15. Prescribed Medication Order and Communication Skills

16. Budget Preparation and Implementation

17. Clinical Pharmacy

18. Over the Counter (OTC) Sales

19. Drug Store Management and Inventory Control

20. Investigational use of Drugs

21. Interpretation of Clinical Laboratory Tests

About the Author:

S. Balasubramanian is one of the senior-most Pharmacy teachers of TamilNadu having more than 43 years of experience in may branches of the Pharmacy Profession. He did his diploma, degree, and post-graduation in pharmacy in the Prestigious Madurai medical college and took the first rank in his batch. He has about 10 years of experience as a manufacturing Chemist in the Pharmaceutical industry, nearly 10 years of experience as a Community pharmacist in the Sultanate of Oman and 23 years of experience as a Pharmacy teacher. Thus with hands-on, first-hand practical knowledge as a pharmacy practitioner, he has written this book, which is bestowed to very few by the almighty and makes him unique among the authors of pharmacy textbooks. As he is an orator, writer, poet and dedicated sincere pharmacist, he was elected unopposed many times as President or Secretary of professional association in Madurai. He has about 50 scientific publications and an equal number of general articles published in reputed journals and the present one is his third Textbook for pharmacy students.