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ReviewClinical pharmacokinetics2008

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data to be derived from early-phase drug development: designing informative human pharmacology studies.

Adam Cohen

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Review in Clinical pharmacokinetics, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Adam CohenCentre for Human Drug Research, Zernikedreef 10, Leiden, the Netherlands. ac@chdr.nl

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug development is, in essence, the answering of scientific questions related to the effects of the intended new medicine. This process starts with preclinical research and proceeds with clinical testing. Especially for innovative drugs, this proceeds along a number of cycles in which the questions are answered by learning from informative studies and subsequent confirmation in more pragmatic studies. Many first-in-human studies and other human pharmacology studies are not designed to be informative but use standard designs and answer generic questions about tolerability and safety. Despite several recent and eloquent pleas for more integrated and quantitative drug development, signs of a strong uptake of this are lacking. In this article, an orderly method for the determination of objective human pharmacology studies is given. The objectives of the study and the expected pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of the compound determine the optimal design; and several general design models and guidelines are given for the design of informative human pharmacology studies.

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Clinical Trials as TopicDrugs, InvestigationalHumansModels, BiologicalResearch DesignDrugs, Investigational

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