Purpose Clearance via renal replacement therapy (RRT) can significantly alter the pharmacokinetic profile of drugs. The aim of this study was (i) to improve the use of clinical trial data and (ii) to provide a model that allows quantification of all aspects of drug elimination via RRT including adsorption to dialysis membranes and/or degradation of the drug in the dialysate. Methods An integrated dialysis pharmacometric (IDP) model was developed to simultaneously incorporate all available RRT information. The sensitivity, accuracy and precision of the IDP model was compared to conventional approaches in clinical trial simulations and applied to clinical datasets of teicoplanin and doripenem. Results The IDP model was more accurate, precise and sensitive than conventional plasma-concentration-based approaches when estimating the clearance RRT (relative bias <1%). In contrast to conventional approaches, adsorption and degradation were quantifiable using the IDP model (relative bias: −1.1% and − 1.9%, respectively). Applied to clinical data, clearance RRT , drug degradation (effluent-half-life doripenem : 13.5 h −1 ) and adsorption (polysulphone adsorption capacity teicoplanin : 31.2 mg) were assessed. Conclusion The IDP model allows accurate, precise and sensitive characterization of clearance RRT , adsorption and degradation. Successful quantification of all aspects of clearance RRT in clinical data demonstrated the benefit of the IDP model as compared to conventional approaches. KEY WORDS adsorption . doripenem . pharmacokinetics . renal replacement therapy . teicoplanin ABBREVIATIONS CVVHD Continuous veno-venous hemodialysis CVVH Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration CVVHDF continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration dOFV Drop in objective function value Eq. Equation IDP model Integrated dialysis pharmacometric model LLP-SIR log-likelihood-profiling based samplingimportance-resampling rBias relative Bias Astrid Broeker and Matthias G. Vossen contributed equally to this work.