Search Results - "SCHUMITZKY, Alan"
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Prospective Trial on the Use of Trough Concentration versus Area under the Curve To Determine Therapeutic Vancomycin Dosing
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-02-2018)“…We hypothesized that dosing vancomycin to achieve trough concentrations of >15 mg/liter overdoses many adults compared to area under the concentration-time…”
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Analysis of combination drug therapy to develop regimens with shortened duration of treatment for tuberculosis
Published in PloS one (08-07-2014)“…Tuberculosis remains a worldwide problem, particularly with the advent of multi-drug resistance. Shortening therapy duration for Mycobacterium tuberculosis is…”
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RPEM: Randomized Monte Carlo parametric expectation maximization algorithm
Published in CPT: pharmacometrics and systems pharmacology (01-05-2024)“…Inspired from quantum Monte Carlo, by sampling discrete and continuous variables at the same time using the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, we present a novel,…”
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An Algorithm for Nonparametric Estimation of a Multivariate Mixing Distribution with Applications to Population Pharmacokinetics
Published in Pharmaceutics (30-12-2020)“…Population pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling has become a cornerstone of drug development and optimal patient dosing. This approach offers great benefits for…”
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Accurate Detection of Outliers and Subpopulations With Pmetrics, a Nonparametric and Parametric Pharmacometric Modeling and Simulation Package for R
Published in Therapeutic drug monitoring (01-08-2012)“…Nonparametric population modeling algorithms have a theoretical superiority over parametric methods to detect pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic subgroups and…”
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Population pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics modeling: parametric and nonparametric methods
Published in Therapeutic drug monitoring (01-06-2000)“…As clinicians acquire experience with the clinical and pharmacokinetic behavior of a drug, it is usually optimal to record this experience in the form of a…”
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In Memoriam: Roger Jelliffe, MD, FCP, FAAPS
Published in Therapeutic drug monitoring (01-10-2020)“…An obituary for Professor Roger Jelliffe who died on June 22. 2020. in Pasadena. CA. at the age of 91 is presented. Dr Jelliffe will forever be remembered as…”
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Achieving target voriconazole concentrations more accurately in children and adolescents
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-06-2015)“…Despite the documented benefit of voriconazole therapeutic drug monitoring, nonlinear pharmacokinetics make the timing of steady-state trough sampling and…”
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Describing Assay Precision-Reciprocal of Variance Is Correct, Not CV Percent: Its Use Should Significantly Improve Laboratory Performance
Published in Therapeutic drug monitoring (01-06-2015)“…Describing assay error as percent coefficient of variation (CV%) fails as measurements approach zero. Results are censored if below some arbitrarily chosen…”
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Accurately Achieving Target Busulfan Exposure in Children and Adolescents With Very Limited Sampling and the BestDose Software
Published in Therapeutic drug monitoring (01-06-2016)“…Busulfan dose adjustment is routinely guided by plasma concentration monitoring using 4-9 blood samples per dose adjustment, but a pharmacometric Bayesian…”
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Two general methods for population pharmacokinetic modeling: non-parametric adaptive grid and non-parametric Bayesian
Published in Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (01-04-2013)“…Population pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling methods can be statistically classified as either parametric or nonparametric (NP). Each classification can be divided…”
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Combination Treatment With Meropenem Plus Levofloxacin Is Synergistic Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in a Murine Model of Pneumonia
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (15-04-2015)“…Background. Meropenem plus levofloxacin treatment was shown to be a promising combination in our in vitro hollow fiber infection model. We strove to validate…”
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A two-compartment population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model of digoxin in adults, with implications for dosage
Published in Therapeutic drug monitoring (01-06-2014)“…A population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model of digoxin in adult subjects was originally developed by Reuning et al in 1973. They clearly described the…”
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Implicit dual control based on particle filtering and forward dynamic programming
Published in International journal of adaptive control and signal processing (01-03-2010)“…This paper develops a sampling‐based approach to implicit dual control. Implicit dual control methods synthesize stochastic control policies by systematically…”
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Parametric and nonparametric population methods : Their comparative performance in analysing a clinical dataset and two monte carlo simulation studies
Published in Clinical pharmacokinetics (01-01-2006)“…This study examined parametric and nonparametric population modelling methods in three different analyses. The first analysis was of a real, although small,…”
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Nonparametric population modeling and Bayesian analysis
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Population Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodyanamic Mixture Models via Maximum a Posteriori Estimation
Published in Computational statistics & data analysis (01-10-2009)“…Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic phenotypes are identified using nonlinear random effects models with finite mixture structures. A maximum a posteriori…”
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Nonlinear random effects mixture models: Maximum likelihood estimation via the EM algorithm
Published in Computational statistics & data analysis (15-08-2007)“…Nonlinear random effects models with finite mixture structures are used to identify polymorphism in pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) phenotypes. An EM…”
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