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Successful Orchestration of Antiparkinsonian Pharmacotherapy
Author(s) -
Scheife Richard T.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
pharmacotherapy: the journal of human pharmacology and drug therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.227
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1875-9114
pISSN - 0277-0008
DOI - 10.1592/phco.19.17.180s.30883
Subject(s) - pharmacotherapy , surprise , orchestration , specialty , simple (philosophy) , medicine , intensive care medicine , computer science , psychology , psychotherapist , medical physics , psychiatry , social psychology , musical , art , visual arts , philosophy , epistemology
As is true with the orchestration of essentially all forms of pharmacotherapy, the overall quality of therapy should not be judged as a simple binary function (it is either good or bad). Rather, it should be judged along a continuum, spanning adequate through excellent and peaking at truly elegant, where two or more disease states are optimally managed with a single, simple drug. Because the difference between adequate and elegant therapy often depends on fine‐tuning the drug choice, dosage, and route of administration, it is no surprise that pharmacists are often intimately involved in many highly successful specialty clinics, including Parkinson's disease clinics.