Therapeutic drug monitoring of olanzapine: Easy and reliable method for clinical correlation.

AIM: The current work establishes an easy, reliable technique for the estimation of serum Olanzapine concentration which correlates it clinically.

SUBJECTS AND

METHODS

The work was agreed in 61 schizophrenic patients who were on olanzapine. Serum drug amount was estimated by normal-phase high-performance liquid chromatography and brief psychiatry rating scale was used to determine disease progression.

RESULTS

Samples provided 61 patients, 40 were under sub-therapeutic range, 18 were under therapeutic range and 3 were above the therapeutic range.

CONCLUSION

Therapeutic drug monitoring must be a part of clinical practice in psychiatric hospitals for optimizing the dose of an individual patient along with the correlation of serum concentration with the clinical assessment scales.