Simulating therapeutic drug monitoring results for dose individualisation to maintain investigator blinding in a randomised controlled trial

Abstract Background Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is essential practice when dosing drugs with a narrow therapeutic index in order to achieve a plasma drug concentration within a narrow target range above the efficacy concentration but below the toxicity concentration. However, TDM with dose ind...

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Main Authors: Maia Lesosky, John Joska, Eric Decloedt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-017-1992-6