“…Most of the published population pharmacokinetic (PPK) studies on tigecycline were conducted in special subpopulations (e.g., patients with intra-abdominal infections, hospital-acquired pneumonia, sepsis or septic shock, as well as patients with decompensated cirrhosis and severe infections, etc. ), while only two studies with limited sampling were carried out on critically ill patients ( Wart et al, 2006 ; Rubino et al, 2010 ; Xie et al, 2017 ; Broeker et al, 2018 ; Moor et al, 2018 ; Yang et al, 2021 ; Zhou et al, 2021 ; Amann et al, 2022 ; Bastida et al, 2022 ; Luo et al, 2023 ). On the other hand, although the recommended dose of tigecycline in drug labels appears to be straightforward (an initial dose of 100 mg followed by 50 mg every 12 h for 5–14 days), increasing evidence shows that the common dose may result in higher all-cause mortality, whereas a high-dose tigecycline therapy strategy (an initial dose of 200 mg followed by 100 mg every 12 h) may have higher clinical cure rate ( McGovern et al, 2013 ; Xie et al, 2014 ; Zha et al, 2020 ).…”