Objectives: Time dependent parameters are sometimes required to describe the pharmacokinetics of a drug. NONMEM provides the user with a…
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A Negative feedback model for a mechanism based description of longitudinal observations: application for bone turnover biomarkers.
Objectives: In modern medicine the initial diagnosis of an abnormal metabolic condition is based on blood borne measurements often involving multiple…
Read moreModeling of renal failure, dialysis, inhalation and mechanical ventilation: Development of a whole-body physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for ICU patients with and without renal failure receiving inhalatively administered Amikacin via a tracheal tube.
Objectives: Aim of this study was to establish a whole-body PBPK model for inhalative administration of Amikacin to renally impaired…
Read moreComparison of methods for handling missing covariate data
Background: Inclusion of important covariates in non-linear mixed effects modelling will reduce the unexplained inter-individual variability and improve the predictability…
Read moreUtilising prior literature population models to inform clinical practice – a dosing regimen for immediate N-acetyl cysteine treatment of paracetamol overdose
Objectives: This research shows how a model from a prior population analysis can be used with clinical trial simulations to…
Read moreModeling Pain score in clinical trials using a joint survival-longitudinal mixed model with a Beta distribution in presence of missing values not occurring at random.
Objectives: In clinical trials investigating pain drugs, the pain is usually assessed by means of a score or a Visual…
Read moreDrug Effects on Sleep Data from a 28-Day Clinical Study in Insomniac Patients: Covariate Analysis Using a Multinomial Mixed-Effect Markov-Chain Model
Objectives: Sleep quality is objectively assessed through polysomnography (PSG), from which clinical efficacy endpoints like sleep latency (LPS) or wake…
Read moreKinetic nomograms assist individualization of drug regimens
Objective: The aim of this work is to propose a rapid and simple drug dosage adjustment method. Develop a useful…
Read morePK/PD Model of skin toxicity in animal reported as binary outcome
Objectives: Develop a PK/PD model for skin toxicity in animal and provide a quantitative basis for preclinical safety assessment. Material…
Read moreEvaluating Bootstrap Methods in Nonlinear Mixed Effect Models (NMEM) Using a PK Model
Objectives: The bootstrap methods in PK/PD studies have not investigated the bias and reliability of various bootstrap confidence interval (CI)…
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