Precision medicine: opportunities, possibilities, and challenges for patients and providers.
Precision medicine approaches disease treatment and prevention by taking patients' individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle into account. Although the ideas underlying precision medicine are not new, opportunities for its more widespread use in practice have been enhanced by the development of large-scale databases, new methods for categorizing and representing patients, and computational tools for analyzing large datasets. New research methods may create uncertainty for both healthcare professionals and [...]
Author(s): Adams, Samantha A, Petersen, Carolyn
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv215