Therapeutic drug monitoring is a branch of clinical chemistry and clinical pharmacology that specializes in the measurement of medication level in blood. Essential diagnostic are, Diagnostic that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population and are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and public health relevance, evidence of efficacy and accuracy and comparative cost- effectiveness; similar to the definition of an essential medicine.
Aim
To determine the necessity of TDM in essential drug list and prioritisation of digoxin, Amikacin and vancomycin.
Objective
1. Establish the priority of digoxin, Vancomycin, Amikacin to be included in TDM.
2. Provide evidence and evaluate the effect to include TDM in essential drug list.