Breaking research silos to achieve equitable precision medicine in rheumatology.

ABSTRACT: Health disparities in rheumatic disease are well established and urgently need addressing. Obstacles to precision medicine equity span both the clinical and the research domains, with a focus placed on structural barriers limiting equitable health care access and inclusivity in research. Less articulated factors include the use of inaccurate population descriptors and the existence of research silos in rheumatology research, which creates a knowledge gap that precludes addressing the health disparities and fulfilling the goals of precision medicine to understand the 'full patient'. The biopsychosocial model is a research framework that intertwines layers of biological and environmental effects to understand disease. However, very limited rheumatology research bridges across molecular and e

SUBMITTER: Ainsworth HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11910143 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature