Therapeutic Drugs Monitoring and the Consequences for Health and Well-Being

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present an overview of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and its consequences for health and well-being by harvesting data from several resources including Online and libraries. Information obtained show that the main goals are to avoid harmful or toxic side effects from an excessive dosage as well as therapeutic failures caused by low compliance or prescribing a medication at an incorrect dosage. It also provides details on which drugs require therapeutic drug monitoring and when. Therapeutic monitoring is necessary because there are limited therapeutic window and may cause toxicity or have no therapeutic effect. Targeted Drug Management (TDM) pertains to the effective administration of medication to individual patients by maintaining medicine applications in blood or plasma surrounded by a designated healing window or range. Using pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics information, TDM enables the assessment of a drug's safety and efficacy in a variety of clinical settings.