Standards of laboratory practice: guidelines for the maintaining of a modern therapeutic drug monitoring service

摘要

On Saturday, June 19, 1997 the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry held a meeting to publicly review a draft document containing recommendations on the provision of basic therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) services. This was the third in a continuing series of meetings on Standards of Laboratory Practice (SOLP), which was established to provide practice guidelines for laboratory scientists in a focused area of laboratory medicine. The manuscripts and summaries of two earlier SOLPs, on Thyroid Disease (1) and on Support of the Newborn (2), were published in this Journal, and the monographs are available from the NACB.By facilitating discussion between clinical laboratory analysts and physicians during the …