Meropenem population pharmacokinetic model for the Chinese elderly established by model-based META analysis / 中国临床药理学与治疗学

AIM: To build a meropenem population pharmacokinetic model for Chinese elderly through model-based meta-analysis. METHODS: Informations including dosing regimen, sampling times, concentrations, sample size, age, gender, body weight (BW) and creatinine clearance were extracted after the literature were retrieved. The model was built by NONMEM. Stepwise covariate modeling strategy was used for covariates analysis. RESULTS: A two-compartment model was applied to describe meropenem pharmacokinetics. After stepwise covariate modeling, covariates that remained significant in the final model were creatinine clearance (CLcr) on CL and the BW on V