RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Monitoring the dose of digoxin
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 470
OP 475
VO 27
IS 181
A1 A. D. Manning
A1 Joanna Brown
YR 1977
UL http://bjgp.org/content/27/181/470.abstract
AB All patients being prescribed digoxin in a general practice were examined and the serum urea, creatinine, electrolytes, and digoxin concentrations were determined. Sixty-six patients were identified (0·73 per cent of the practice population). After excluding six, whose tablet-taking was unreliable, it was found that two patients had serum digoxin levels above the usually accepted upper limit and a total of 23 patients (38 per cent of the digoxin takers) had some alteration made to their dose, including eight whose digoxin was stopped. We believe that serum digoxin estimations are useful in determining the optimum dose of digoxin in general practice.