Background: Monitoring drug treatment is important to assess the therapeutic effects and to
prevent adverse drug reactions. Unfortunately, the clinical evidence for monitoring is often …

Background: The effects of drugs on laboratory tests may lead to misinterpretation of
laboratory data, unnecessary tests, higher costs and missed diagnoses. This study …

When I was a medical student, I had a medicine rotation with a spectacular senior resident
and a less than stellar staffperson. The resident was very smart, terrifically organized, and …

Background and Objectives: Product labeling and published guidelines reflect the
importance of monitoring laboratory parameters for drugs with a risk of organ system toxicity …

Developing compliance instructions for drug labeling Page 1 586 A recent assessment of the
completeness of clinical pharmacology information in the drug labeling in a representative …

13/1/104737 doi: 10.1067/mcp. 2000.104737 assessed 31 clinical pharmacology
information elements in five categories (mechanism of action, pharmacodynamics …

Clinical laboratories face increasing costs along with increased expectation to ensure
appropriate use of diagnostic tests by physicians. One administrative mechanism that has …

Background Laboratory monitoring of medications is typically used to establish safety prior
to drug initiation and to detect drug-related injury following initiation. It is unclear whether …

The interpretation of therapeutic drug monitoring data depends not only on the
measurements themselves but also on additional data collected on the request forms and …

Drug effects on laboratory test results are difficult to take into account without an online
decision support system. In this study, drug effects on hormone test results were coded using …