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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-20
pubmed:abstractText
It is the goal of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) to use drug concentrations to manage a patient's medication regime and optimise outcome. Limited resources require that drug assays should only be performed when they do contribute to patient management. For this to be the case a therapeutic drug monitoring service has a far greater role than just therapeutic drug measuring. This article describes the roles and functions of a Best Practice TDM service. The features which can and should be strived for in each step of the TDM process-the decision to request a drug level, the biological sample, the request, laboratory measurement, communication of results by the laboratory, clinical interpretation and therapeutic management-are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0306-5251
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
52 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5S-10S
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-10-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Best practice in therapeutic drug monitoring.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards NSW 2065, Australia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review