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Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a clinical pharmacokinetic practice in which drug concentrations are measured in a patient's blood to guide individualized dosing. It applies principally to drugs with narrow therapeutic windows—where the margin between efficacy and toxicity is small—such as aminoglycosides, vancomycin, cyclosporine, and antiepileptics. Developed as a formal discipline in the 1980s, TDM integrates measured concentrations with pharmacokinetic modeling to calculate patient-specific dose regimens.

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Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM)
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / pharmacometrics
  • Spector, R., Park, G. D., Johnson, G. F., & Vesell, E. S. (1988). Therapeutic drug monitoring. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 43(4), 345–353. · DOI 10.1038/clpt.1988.42
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See alsoBayesian Inferencemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPharmacokinetic Compartment Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPopulation Pharmacokineticsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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