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. 2016 Jun 28;55(12):1573–1589. doi: 10.1007/s40262-016-0422-3

Table 5.

Predictive performance analysis of the furosemide and morphine physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models with and without age-informed physiology

Furosemide Morphine
Adult physiology Age-informed physiology Adult physiology Age-informed physiology
Adult data Elderly data Elderly data Adult data Elderly data Elderly data
Bias
 ME 0.032 (−0.034 to 0.010) −0.339 (−0.621 to −0.057) 0.076 (−0.015 to 0.137) 0.082 (0.001 to 0.163) −0.093 (−0.231 to 0.045) 0.050 (−0.072 to 0.172)
Precision
 RMSE 0.180 (0.141 to 0.212) 0.408 (0.004 to 0.721) 0.276 (0.185 to 0.343) 0.286 (0.189 to 0.358) 0.437 (0.001 to 0.656) 0.224 (0.004 to 0.384)
 ΔRMSE 0.132 (0.005 to 0.695) 0.212 (0.001 to 0.635)
 Relative ΔRMSE 32 % 49 %

Values are expressed in mg/L with 95 % confidence intervals (in parentheses)

ME mean prediction error, RMSE root mean squared prediction error, ΔRMSE difference in RMSE