
Ensuring the safety of treatments through pharmacological monitoring
Therapeutic pharmacological monitoring enables dosage individualization, and is therefore an important tool for ensuring safety and therapeutic efficacy for our patients, which is all the more essential in the case of a narrow therapeutic index. Prescription of these medical tests is therefore indicated in cases of suspected therapeutic ineffectiveness, adverse effects, risk of pharmacokinetic disruption (pathophysiological conditions, drug interactions, high inter-individual variability) or suspected non-compliance with treatment.
Pharmacological tests are regularly carried out using automated systems associated with kits produced by industrial suppliers, which offer a good level of sensitivity and specificity. This is true for the most widely prescribed treatments, some of which have been available for many years, meaning that the pharmacological therapeutic monitoring is based on the highest level of medical evidence, developed over time.