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Precision medicine


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    • Individualized medicine
    • Personalized medicine
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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Personalized medicine
  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Journal of personalized medicine, 2011.
    • found: National Library of Medicine, MeSH Browser(MeSH heading: Individualized Medicine; Entry Term: Personalized Medicine; See Also: Pharmacogenetics)
    • found: 109th Congress, 2nd session. S. 3822, August 3, 2006:p. 2 (Personalized medicine is the application of genomic and molecular data to better target the delivery of health care, facilitate the discovery and clinical testing of new products, and help determine a patient's predisposition to a particular disease or condition)
    • found: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Priorities for personalized medicine, Sept. 2008:p. 1 ("Personalized medicine" refers to the tailoring of medical treatment to the individual characteristics of each patient)
    • found: Quantitative methods for precision medicine, 2022:CIP galley ("As opposed to such a one-size-fits-all approach, precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, tailors disease treatment and prevention strategies for individual persons by taking into account their genetic, environmental, and lifestyle differences") (DLC)2022030449
    • found: Help me understand genetics - precision medicine, online PDF reprinted from MedLinePlus Genetics, viewed September 20, 2022:page 1 (What is precision medicine?: "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person") page 2 (What is the difference between precision medicine and personalized medicine?: "According to the National Research Council, "personalized medicine" is an older term with a meaning similar to "precision medicine" ... there was concern that the word "personalized" could be misinterpreted to imply that treatments and preventions are being developed uniquely for each individual; in precision medicine, the focus is on identifying which approaches will be effective for which patients based on genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors")
    • found: Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, 4th edition, viewed via Credo reference, September 20, 2022:Pharmacogenomics ("Pharmacogenomics is a major component of "precision medicine," formerly referred to as personalized medicine")
    • found: National Library of Medicine, MeSH browser:(MeSH heading: Precision Medicine; Entry term(s): Individualized Medicine, Personalized Medicine; Concepts: Precision Medicine, Preferred Term, 02/27/2015; Personalized Medicine, 05/13/2009, Individualized Medicine, 04/27/2009)
  • History Notes

    • [Heading changed from Personalized medicine to Precision medicine in February 2023.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2013-11-20: new
    • 2023-02-22: revised
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