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12:28 Sep 8, 2010

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English term or phrase: post-periodic dosing

The following refers to a new medicament: The use of either daily administration or post-periodic dosing may be employed.

If it's not periodic, then what is it?
The term was discussed on proz here (www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_german/medical:_pharmaceutica... alas, in German :(

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	liz askew

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page 142 gives a short explanation of what "periodic dosing" is (in the context of the article)...

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:1NWpPWqG7WYJ:www.a...

as for post-periodic dosing, I am still scratching my head

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sorry
page 4 of the file

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perhaps it means after the period that doses are given at fixed time intervals, but that is a guess, which is never recommended in this field.

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Scaling Laws for Plasma Concentrations and Tolerable Doses of ...
by TH Dawson - 2010
15 Jun 2010 ... Now, the similarity condition here for periodic drug dosing among humans and ... For illustration of the adequacy of Eq. N for periodic dosing with fixed schedule, .... The actual dose per interval is of course 5.11 × 430 = 2200 ... and Gordon and colleagues (18) have given clinical data for humans. ...
cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/70/12/4801.full

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i.e. there is no longer a fixed schedule for taking doses

???

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