Praise for VancoPK®

“Nathan, I read your paper “Vancomycin area under the curves estimated with pharmacokinetic equations using trough-only data” and I believe your research is a great addition to the Vanco knowledge base.” Rick Tharp, PharmD, RxKinetics

“I wanted to circle back to you and let you know the protocol for pharmacist dosing of vancomycin based on your calculator has been approved by our P&T committee and is now fully implemented. We have done an assessment of the accuracy and are satisfied that it gives us a good estimate of necessary parameters we use to make dosing decisions.  We have also implemented standard administration times using your loading dose function which has been a delight to every department involved. Thank you for your help and advice that facilitated my success with this project.” JoAnn Gibbs, PharmD, Louisiana

“I’d like to thank you for putting online this very helpful calculation tool – we are using it now for quite a time and would be missing it if it was not there.” Dr. Thomas Kerz, Mainz, Germany

“Thank you for all the work you have done with this project and calculator.  It’s been a life-saving addition to our hospital.  Again, thank you.” Nicholas Nelson, PharmD, Kansas

“I am an ICU pharmacist. Changing to AUC/MIC is a challenge for the pharmacists. It is lucky I found VancoPK. I really appreciate your performance.” Aiping Wen, PharmD, Beijing, China

“The AUC calculator most closely aligned with trapezoidal AUC was VancoPK, whereas other included calculators were statistically different. Owing to the cost and complexity of obtaining multiple levels, our findings support using a single steady-state trough using VancoPK as an alternative to the trapezoidal method for calculation of vancomycin AUC.” Elizabeth Keil, et al., Ann Pharmacother, 2022