Drug-Drug Interactions and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is the clinical practice of drug quantification at designated intervals in patients’ blood samples, thereby improving the individual benefit/risk balance and avoiding the adverse drug reactions due to drug–drug interactions. The process of TDM is based on the assumption of a definable relationship between the pharmacokinetics (PK) and the pharmacodynamics (PD) of the drug. Drugs’ PK and/or PD can also be affected by demographic and biological co-variates. Hence, TDM aims to evaluate all these parameters to improve clinical outcomes. New statistical approaches and tools can be used for treatment individualization. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight current research and tools leading to the development of TDM and treatment individualization.

Dr. Chadi Abbara
Guest Editor

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