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. 2019 Jan 4;85(3):516–529. doi: 10.1111/bcp.13811

Table 5.

Predictive performance of most accurate selected limited sampling strategies predicting tacrolimus exposure in adult kidney transplant recipients

Sampling times Precision Bias % AUClss within 15% AUCint r2
RMSE (%) MAPE (%) MPE (ng h ml–1) MPPE (%)
0 h 19.5 20.4 –0.9 0.5 59.7 0.61
0, 2 h 9.2 7.3 –3.2 –2.4 92.5 0.89
0, 1, 4 h 6.0 5.2 –2.3 –1.5 100.0 0.95
0, 1, 2, 4 h 5.1 4.2 –2.5 –1.8 100.0 0.96

RMSE, relative root mean squared prediction error; MAPE, mean absolute percentage prediction error; MPE, mean prediction error; MPPE, mean percentage prediction error; AUClss, tacrolimus area under the concentration curve predicted by Bayesian forecasting; AUCint, tacrolimus area under the concentration curve calculated from the final pharmacokinetic model with intensive serial sampling; r2, coefficient of determination between AUClss and AUCint