Pharmacokinetic monitoring in the community health-care setting.
Ambulatory care pharmacokinetic profiling has been utilized with increasing frequency over the last decade. The demonstration of need is the first step in initiating outpatient pharmacokinetic service. This article identifies methods used in demonstrating a need and discusses the normal daily activities of an ambulatory pharmacokinetic service located in a university-based family medicine clinic. The reader will also learn of trends that ambulatory care pharmacokinetic programs will become involved with in the near future.
D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D012017:Referral and Consultation
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations