Dried Blood Spot Analysis for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antipsychotics: Drawbacks of Its Clinical Application (original) (raw)

Therapeutic drug monitoring, 2018

Abstract

Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling offers a minimally invasive sampling method for therapeutic drug monitoring of antipsychotics. To facilitate implementation in clinical practice, the aim of this study was to perform a clinical validation study of a DBS method for quantification of risperidone, aripiprazole, pipamperone, and their major metabolites 9-OH risperidone and dehydro-aripiprazole in a real-life, clinical setting. Paired DBS and venous plasma samples were analyzed (n = 35 for risperidone, n = 21 for aripiprazole, n = 21 for pipamperone). Estimated plasma concentrations were calculated from DBS concentrations based on hematocrit and/or Deming regression formulas. Deming regression and Bland-Altman analyses were used to determine the agreement between the calculated and measured plasma concentrations. For Bland-Altman analysis, the following acceptance limit was used: for a minimum of 67% of the samples, the difference of the 2 measurements should be within 20% of their mean. T...

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