A Case Discussion of Individualized Administration of Warfarin by Maximum a Posteriori Bayesian Estima-tion Method / 中国药师

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the role played by clinical pharmacists in the formulation and pharmaceutical care of individual-ized administration of warfarin. Methods:Clinical pharmacists adopted maximum a posteriori Bayesian method to formulate the dosage regimen of patients treated with warfarin and monitored the implementation process. The increase of INR was timely identified on ac-count of drug interactions to avoid bleeding events,as well as the decrease of INR caused by patients' medication mistakes to avoid re-currence of thrombosis. Results:The maximum a posterior Bayesian estimation method could be used to estimate and guide clinical medication,which showed great reference value for individualized drug regimen. Conclusion:Clinical pharmacists should formulate in-dividualized administration plan according to genetic testing results and choose optimal treatment for patients. Moreover,the implemen-tation of dosage regimen should be monitored during the whole progress,so as to timely find INR abnormal fluctuations due to disease interactions,drug interactions,poor treatment compliance and so on,and consequently improve anticoagulant effect and reduce adverse reactions such as bleeding and thrombosis etc.