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How long does it take to read Drug Information Handbook?

Lexicomp

Drug Information Handbook by Lexicomp takes about 44 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 44 hours 24 minutes

A long haul

First published 2013. 2,422 pages, about 666,050 words.

89 days (about 13 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 74 hours
Average, 250 words a minute 44 hours 24 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 27 hours 45 minutes

The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The Drug Information Handbook, 22nd Edition, continues the Lexicomp tradition of delivering trusted, pharma-free pharmacotherapy knowledge to healthcare professionals. This resource follows a user-friendly, dictionary-like format, providing clinicians with fast access to clear, concise Lexicomp drug information. Endorsed by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the Drug Information Handbook is relied on daily by clinicians everywhere to improve medication safety and enhance patient care. The Drug Information Handbook covers over 5,500 medications and features 41 new monographs and hundreds of updates to existing content. Each monograph encompasses up to 39 fields of information, including detailed content on dosage, drug interactions and adverse reactions. Supplementing the drug information is a comprehensive Appendix offering charts, tables, treatment guidelines and therapy recommendations and a Pharmacologic Category Index listing all drugs within their unique pharmacologic class. - Publisher.

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