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ReviewClinical pharmacology and therapeutics2021

Drug Dosing Recommendations for All Patients: A Roadmap for Change.

J Robert Powell, Jack Cook, Yaning Wang, Richard Peck, Dan Weiner

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Review in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

J Robert PowellClinical Pharmacology Consultant, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Jack CookClinical Pharmacology, Pfizer Inc, Groton, Connecticut, USA.
Yaning WangOffice of Clinical Pharmacology, Office of Translational Sciences, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
Richard PeckRoche Innovation Center Basel, Pharma Research & Early Development (pRED), Basel, Switzerland.
Dan WeinerPharmacometrics Consultant, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most drug labels do not contain dosing recommendations for a significant portion of real-world patients for whom the drug is prescribed. Current label recommendations predominately reflect the population studied in pivotal trials that typically exclude patients who are very young or old, emaciated or morbidly obese, pregnant, or have multiple characteristics likely to influence dosing. As a result, physicians may need to guess the correct dose and regimen for these patients. It is now feasible to provide dose and regimen recommendations for these patients by integrating available scientific knowledge and by utilizing or modifying current regulatory agency-industry practices. The purpose of this commentary is to explore several factors that should be considered in creating a process that will provide more effective, safe, and timely drug dosing recommendations for most, if not all, patients. These factors include the availability of real-world data, development of predictive models, experience with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s pediatric exclusivity program, development of clinical decision software, funding mechanisms like the Prescription Drug Users Fee Act (PDUFA), and harmonization of global regulatory policies. From an examination of these factors, we recommend a relatively simple, efficient expansion of current practices designed to predict, confirm, and continuously improve drug dosing for more patients. We believe implementing these recommendations will benefit patients, payers, industry, and regulatory agencies.

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Dose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug Dosage CalculationsDrug LabelingHumansPharmaceutical PreparationsUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationPharmaceutical Preparations

Identifiers

PMID32453862
PMCPMC7818440

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