This well-illustrated and practically oriented text is the first patient assessment case-based textbook aimed at pharmacists. Provides information for patient assessment in a systematic and comprehensive text with drawings, color photographs, and tables. Covers patient assessment skills over three sections: patient assessment of special populations. Chapters in the body system and special population sections include a pharmaceutical Care plan format that presents a sample case. Templates in the body system section contain chapter objective, an introduction, symptom review, case example, discussion of the assessment process for the case, a sample pharmaceutical Care plan, and self-assessment questions.