Alternative to TDM

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Alternative to TDM

Some drugs are more efficiently monitored by determining their effects rather than by measuring the serum drug level. Warfarin dosing, for example, is better monitored by measuring the prothrombin time (PT) and International Normalized Ratio (INR). We monitor warfarin by looking at the physiologic effect since the effects of warfarin will outlast its presence in the blood.