"Random" gentamicin concentrations do not predict trough levels in neonates receiving once daily fixed dose regimens

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Boyle, Elaine M ^a   Brookes, Isobel ^a   Nye, Kathy ^a   Watkinson, Mike ^a   Riordan, F Andrew I ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NOMOGRAM; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GENTAMICINS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NOMOGRAMS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33645872391     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-6-8     Document Type: Article

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