NONMEM Running On A PC Workstation : Installation And Use In A Clinical Pharmacy Department

C. Pobel

Centre Hospitalier Général De Saintes, BP. 326 - 17108 Saintes Cedex - France

I) Why NONMEM On Such A Configuration, And What For ?

  • Unquestionable software for PK analysis of sparse datas in routine clinical practice.
  • These lowest cost for us.
  • Good pedagogic approach with students.
  • The only advanced “population software” available for PC.

II) Installation “Strictly speaking” :

  • Hardware description.
  • Installation of Nonmem III and IV, brief description of problems and solutions.

III) Uses Of NONMEM :

  • In clinical practice (constitution of PK populations during dosage adjusments).
  • As part of inter hospital collaboration in PK.
  • In a pedagogical way.

IV) Evaluation Of This Experiment :

  • from: clinical use, cost / effectiveness ratio and pedagogical point of view
  • for using on effectiveness and duration of runs on a PC workstation.

Abstract: This experiment has consisted in installing and running NONMEM IV on a PC workstation (under Unix SCO and LPI Fortran) in a clinical pharmacy department. Installation itself has showed only two problems with NMTRAN, rapidly resolved. Current uses are satisfactory: low cost, no tremendous increase of runs duration in our applications good pedagogical value, new contacts with other departments for inter hospital works.

Reference: PAGE 2 (1993) Abstr 899 [www.page-meeting.org/?abstract=899]

Poster: oral presentation