| AKI | Acute kidney injury |
| ARC | Augmented renal clearance |
| BICc | corrected Bayesian Information Criteria |
| CRRT | Continuous renal replacement therapy |
| Cl | Climination clearance |
| ClCr | Creatinine clearance |
| COSSAC | COnditional Sampling use for the Stepwise Approach |
| CVVHD | Continuous venovenous hemodialysis |
| CVVHDF | Continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration |
| EUCAST | The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing |
| GOF | Goodness of fit |
| ICU | Intensive care unit |
| IIV | Inter-individual variability |
| IOV | Inter-occasion variability |
| MIC | Minimum inhibitory concentration |
| MRSA | Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
| OFV | Objective function value |
| pcVPC | Prediction-corrected visual predictive check |
| PK | Pharmacokinetic |
| PK/PD | pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic |
| PopPK | Population pharmacokinetic |
| PTA | Probability of target attainment |
| SAEM | Stochastic approximation expectation-maximization |
| SmPC | Summary of product characteristics |
| Q | Inter-compartmental clearance |
| Qb | Blood flow rate |
| Qeff | Effluent flow rate |
| VCentral | Volume of the central compartment |
| VPeripheral | Volume of the peripheral compartment |