ZHANG Miao 1,2,3,4,5 , CHEN Jingjing 1,2,3,4 , ZENG Linan 1,2,3,4 , HUANG Liang 1,2,3,4 , CHEN Zhe 1,2,3,4 , JIANG Zhimei 1,2,3,4 , DIAO Sha 1,2,3,4 , ZHANG Lingli 1,2,3,4
  • 1. Department of Pharmacy, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
  • 2. Evidence-Based Pharmacy Center, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
  • 3. NMPA Key Laboratory for Technical Research on Drug Products in Vitro and in Vivo Correlation, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Ministry of Education, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
  • 5. West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
ZHANG Lingli, Email: zhanglingli@scu.edu.cn
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Objective To systematically review the research status of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for traditional Chinese medicine. Methods PubMed, EMbase, The Cochrane Library, CNKI, WanFang Data, CBM, VIP databases, official websites of governments and societies associated with TDM were electronically searched to collect studies on TDM for traditional Chinese medicine from inception to January, 2022. Two reviewers independently screened literature and extracted data. Then, a qualitative systematic review was conducted. Results A total of 13 studies were included, all of which came from China and were small sample size studies. The studied population consisted mainly of healthy volunteers (85%), followed by patients of coronary artery disease with blood stasis pattern (31%), patients of rheumatoid arthritis (8%), and patients of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (8%). There were two types of medicine, including proprietary Chinese medicine (69%) and Chinese herbal pieces (31%). The research topics were all theoretical research of TDM, mainly concentration detection methods (77%), followed by influence factors of blood drug concentration (15%), the selection of specimen (15%), the selection of monitoring object (8%) and the concentration reference range (8%). There was no clinical practice study on TDM of traditional Chinese medicine. Conclusion TDM of traditional Chinese medicine is still in the exploratory stage in China. Published studies are mainly on the theoretical research of TDM, and no relevant studies is on clinical practice of TDM of traditional Chinese medicine.

Citation: ZHANG Miao, CHEN Jingjing, ZENG Linan, HUANG Liang, CHEN Zhe, JIANG Zhimei, DIAO Sha, ZHANG Lingli. Therapeutic drug monitoring for traditional Chinese medicine: a systematic review. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2023, 23(1): 21-26. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202206020 Copy

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