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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2015 Aug 2;71(10):1197–1207. doi: 10.1007/s00228-015-1913-0

Table 4.

Pharmacodynamic parameters for bispectral index and subjective effects

Parameter (unit) Definition Estimate
Bispectral index Subjective effects
Performance Drowsiness Drug effect
E0 (%) Baseline response 64.2 (14.0) 7.1 (14.0) 9.5 (24.6) 20.7 (67.6)
Emax (mm or %) Maximum response 33.7 (62.9) 86.8 (7.3) 71.3 (11.4) 78.5 (19.4)
EC50 (nmol/L) NEs at 50 % of Emax 3.9 (26.9) 3.3 (21.1) 4.4 (18.5) 3.5 (15.6)
γ Shape factor 3.1 (87.0) 4.0 (80.6) 4.2 (57.0) 4.1 (22.7)
ke0 (h−1) Biophase rate constant 15.6 (31.1) 18.2 (77.5) 18.3 (61.2) 36.5 (46.6)
Inter-individual variability
EC50 0.038 (51.2) [20] 0.119 (41.0) [0.4] 0.074 (51.9) [6] 0.051 (81.3) [5]
Residual variability
 Additive error (mm or %) 7.99 (11.1) 6.05 (45.1) 11.70 (13.4) 1.66 (13.6)
 Proportional error - 0.18 (36.7) - 0.38 (9.9)

(%) RSE, [%] shrinkage