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Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is considered essential when treating patients with certain drugs, particulary those with narrow windows of therapeutic concentrations and where significant individual variations exist between the dosage and the resulting serum concentration (1). Traditionally, this involved drawing a sample of blood from the patient, sending the sample and test request to the laboratory, and waiting for the laboratory to report the result. With STAT requests from the emergency room, the wait averages 1.89 hours (2); outpatient requests take even longer. There has consequently been keen interest in the development of more rapid, patient-side methods, which would enable adjustment of the therapeutic regimen during the initial visit with the attending physician.
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Houts, T. (1991). Immunochromatography. In: Price, C.P., Newman, D.J. (eds) Principles and Practice of Immunoassay. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11234-0_20
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