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What is therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)?
The use of drug concentration measurements in body fluids as an aid to the management of drug therapy for the cure, alleviation or prevention of disease
When is monitoring unnecessary?
When there is a wide margin between the toxic dose and the therapeutically effective dose
When was therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) routinely practiced in clinical laboratories?
In the early 1970s
What is the process of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)?
It begins with a clinical question, devises a sampling strategy, determines one or more drug or metabolite concentrations, and interprets the results appropriately
What led to the surge of publications in the early 1970s on improving individualization of therapy by the monitoring of drug concentration and appropriate adjustment of dose?
The relationship between plasma concentration and pharmacological effect for lithium demonstrated by Baastrup and Schou in 1967
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