Individualisation of drug treatments for patients with long-term conditions: a review of concepts.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients and policy makers advocate that drug treatments should be individualised. However, the term is used in a variety of ways. We set out to identify the range of related terminology and concepts in the general field of individualisation, map out the relationships between these concepts and explore how patients' perspectives are considered.

Design

We consulted members of an established patient and public involvement group about their experience of medicine taking for long-term conditions and their ideas about individualisation. We then conducted a scoping review of the literature to explore how terms surrounding individualisation of drug treatment are used and defined in the literature, and to explore the extent to which patients' perspectives are represented,

SUBMITTER: Denford S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3975745 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature