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abstractpubmed· Abstract 2021· item PMID:33727341

Drug level monitoring in palliative patients. Palliative medicine is always patient centred and promotes the principle that no unnecessary investigations are performed. The case is reported of a patient with suspected carbamazepine toxicity presenting as progression of symptoms of primary brain tumour. A comparison is made of the symptoms and signs of toxicity versus tumour, and an aid for deciding when to perform therapeutic drug level monitoring for some common drugs.