Therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin by AUC-MIC ratio in patients with chronic kidney disease.

In this study which was conducted in Alzahra University Hospital (Isfahan, I.R. Iran), the therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin focused on determining area under the concentration-time curve at dosing interval (τ) at steady state/minimum inhibitory concentration (AUC/MIC) was carried out in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients.