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Computing optimal drug dosing with OptiDose: implementation in NONMEM
Freya Bachmann1, Gilbert Koch2, Robert J Bauer3
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, PO Box 195, 78457, Konstanz, Germany.
Abstract:
Determining a drug dosing recommendation with a PKPD model can be a laborious and complex task. Recently, an optimal dosing algorithm (OptiDose) was developed to compute the optimal doses for any pharmacometrics/PKPD model for a given dosing scenario. In the present work, we reformulate the underlying optimal control problem and elaborate how to solve it with standard commands in the software NONMEM. To demonstrate the potential of the OptiDose implementation in NONMEM, four relevant but substantially different optimal dosing tasks are solved. In addition, the impact of different dosing scenarios as well as the choice of the therapeutic goal on the computed optimal doses are discussed.
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