Analytical Methodology
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Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM): An Aspect of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy Practice
Abstract: AbstractTherapeutic drug monitoring or TDM is the clinical pharmacology of measuring specific drugs at designated intervals to uphold a constant level of drug in a patient’s blood circulation, thereby optimizing individual dosage regimens. TDM becomes necessary only for the categories of drug with narrow therapeutic ranges, drugs with marked pharmacokinetic variability, medications for which target concentrations are difficult to monitor, and drugs known to cause therapeutic and adverse effects. On …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Pharmacology · Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2015 · pp. 27–34 Read article