
Opinion|Videos|December 2, 2024
Best Practices for Standardizing Step-Up Dosing
Key Takeaways
- Establish structured protocols for dose escalation, monitoring patient responses, and criteria for dose delays to ensure safety and efficacy.
- Flexibility in dosing is crucial to accommodate individual patient needs, such as adverse reactions or comorbidities.
Panelists discuss how specific recommended dosing schedules exist for step-up medication administration, and protocols should incorporate flexibility for individualized dose adjustments based on patient response, tolerability, and clinical factors while maintaining systematic documentation of any deviations from standard escalation timelines.
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- What best practices can you share regarding how to standardize step-up dosing for these agents while allowing for cases that may need delayed dosing?
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