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Optimal designs for population pharmacokinetic studies of oral artesunate in patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria.

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BACKGROUND: Currently, population pharmacokinetic (PK) studies of anti-malarial drugs are designed primarily by the logistical and ethical constraints of taking blood samples from patients, and the statistical models that are fitted to the data are not formally considered. This could lead to imprecise estimates of the target PK parameters, and/or designs insufficient to estimate all of the parameters. Optimal design methodology has been developed to determine blood sampling schedules that wil...

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10.1186/1475-2875-10-181

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University of Oxford
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University of Oxford
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MSD
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NDM
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BioMed Central Publisher's website
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Malaria Journal Journal website
Volume:
10
Issue:
1
Article number:
181
Publication date:
2011-01-01
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1475-2875
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1475-2875
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English
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163963
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2012-12-19

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