Re: [NMusers] trough time same as dosing time

Should not be a problem for oral administration. If IV, make sure that trough observation records
are before the dosing records (time can be the same, but they should be ordered correctly).
Leonid


Ying HONG wrote:
> Dear NMusers,
>
> A single-dose of drug was given to healthy volunteers and a PK model
> incorporating Michaelis-Menten distribution nicely captured the
> concentration-time profile.
>
> The same drug was given to healthy volunteers once daily for consecutive
> 7 days. The same PK model developed on the single-dose data were fitted
> to multiple-dose data, however, nonmem minimization was terminated. In
> the dataset, the time of trough sample is coded exactly same as the time
> for next dose according to the study protocol, for example, the time for
> trough on day 1 and time for dosing on day 2 is 24 hr. Actually, it will
> never be the case in the real clinical setting. My gut feeling is coding
> in this way may cause numerical errors. Can someone shed light on it so
> that I can request the clock time for dosing and sampling?
>
> Thank you very much! Ying
>
Received on Tue May 29 2007 - 09:23:20 EDT