Holford Nick
Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2015 Jan;79(1):18-27. doi: 10.1111/bcp.12170.
Clinical pharmacology is concerned with understanding how to use medicines to treat disease. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics have provided powerful methodologies for describing the time course of concentration and effect in individuals and in populations. This population approach may also be applied to describing the progression of disease and the action of drugs to change disease progress. Quantitative models for symptomatic and disease-modifying effects of drugs are valuable not only for describing drugs and diseases but also for identifying criteria to distinguish between types of drug actions, with implications for regulatory decisions and long-term patient care.
临床药理学关注的是如何使用药物来治疗疾病。药代动力学和药效学为描述个体及群体中药物浓度和效应的时间过程提供了强大的方法。这种群体方法也可用于描述疾病的进展以及药物改变疾病进程的作用。药物对症和疾病修饰作用的定量模型不仅对于描述药物和疾病很有价值,而且对于确定区分不同类型药物作用的标准也很有价值,这对监管决策和长期患者护理具有重要意义。