Therapeutic study of a drug is scientific research to find out if the medication can be used to treat disease.
confirm a blood drug concentration level that is above or below the therapeutic range, or if the desired therapeutic effect of the drug is not as expected.
in pharmacology the seven therapeutic uses of drugs
The therapeutic effect is otherwise known as the "desired effect". The effect we want the drug to do. In contrast to Adverse or undesired effect.
The purpose of a therapeutic drug is to treat, manage, or cure a medical condition, illness, or disease. These drugs are designed to alleviate symptoms, improve quality of life, or restore normal bodily function in patients.
Non-therapeutic drug effects are those that don't treat the target condition. For instance, the stomach cramping caused by erythromycin is a non-therapeutic effect when erythromycin is used for infection; interestingly, it may be a therapeutic effect if erythromycin is used for gastroparesis.
The therapeutic index of a drug is determined by dividing the lethal dose (LD50) by the effective dose (ED50). In this case: Therapeutic index = LD50/ED50 = 60mg/kg / 20mg/kg = 3. This means that the drug has a therapeutic index of 3, indicating a relatively safe drug with a wide margin of safety.
TDM stands for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.
Generic substitution involves dispensing a generic version of a drug in place of its brand-name equivalent, while therapeutic substitution involves replacing a prescribed medication with another drug that has a similar therapeutic effect. Generic substitution focuses on using chemically equivalent alternatives, whereas therapeutic substitution considers different but therapeutically similar options.
Drug therapy monitoring, also known as Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM), is a means of monitoring drug levels in the blood.
The therapeutic index of drugs is the ratio between the amount of drug needed to kill 50% of the cells of the experimental animals and the dose needed for 50% of the cells to respond. The larger the therapeutic index, the safer the drug.
The term for the body's reaction to a drug is "drug response" or "drug reaction". This can include a variety of effects, such as therapeutic benefits or side effects.