Practice guidelines for therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin: a consensus review of the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and the Japanese Society of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.

The article discusses the guidelines for drug monitoring (TDM) of vancomycin (VCM) and the reviews for TDM by Japanese Society of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (JSTDM) and Japanese Society of Chemotherapy (JSC). It says that the guidelines for TDM of VCM were reviewed by the practice guidelines committee. It states that the TDM and VCM dosing recommendations were not stated in the guidelines for patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and with renal function deterioration.