Target concentration intervention: beyond Y2K.

نویسنده

  • N H Holford
چکیده

Target concentration intervention (TCI) is proposed as an alternative conceptual strategy to therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). It is argued that the idea of a therapeutic range has limited the interpretation of measured drug concentrations and diminished the anticipated clinical benefit to patients by use of an oversimplified pharmacodynamic model. TCI on the other hand embraces pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic concepts and uses the idea of a target effect and associated target concentration to make rational individual dose decisions.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • British journal of clinical pharmacology

دوره 52 Suppl 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999