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Monitoring antiepileptic drug therapy with serum level measurements
Author(s) -
Vajda Frank J E
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01421.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , medicine , psychology , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 19 November 2007 187 10 581-581 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Improving clinical care Therapeutic drug level monitoring was introduc a belief that drug levels in the blood were a m indicator of efficacy than drug dose alone. A relationship applied to phenytoin, the main drug decades ago, it does not apply to many AEDs. The concept of a “therapeutic range” is a statis applying to populations rather than individual We treat patients, not levels