Towards Personalized Medication

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 Oct 27:285:49-57. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210572.

Abstract

The paper describes some aspects of precision medicine and shows the importance of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics for the therapeutic drug monitoring and model-informed precision dosing. A key element in the design of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD) models is relevant literature search that represents an essential step in the procurement and validation of a new drug. Available search engine resources do not offer specific functionalities that are required for efficient and relevant search in reliable literature sources. We present a prototype of such an intelligent search engine and show its results on real project data.

Keywords: Precision medicine; intelligent literature search; model-informed precision dosing; pharmacodynamics; pharmacokinetics.

MeSH terms

  • Drug Monitoring*
  • Precision Medicine*