Support of personalized medicine through risk-stratified treatment recommendations - an environmental scan of clinical practice guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Risk-stratified treatment recommendations facilitate treatment decision-making that balances patient-specific risks and preferences. It is unclear if and how such recommendations are developed in clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Our aim was to assess if and how CPGs develop risk-stratified treatment recommendations for the prevention or treatment of common chronic diseases.

Methods

We searched the United States National Guideline Clearinghouse for US, Canadian and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (United Kingdom) CPGs for heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes that make risk-stratified treatment recommendations. We included only those CPGs that made risk-stratified treatment recommendations based

SUBMITTER: Yu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3565912 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature