Other side of the coin for personalised medicine and healthcare: content analysis of 'personalised' practices in the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Various terms and definitions are used to describe personalised approaches to medicine and healthcare, but in ambiguous and inconsistent ways. They mostly have been defined in a top-down manner. However, actual practices might take different paths. Here, we aimed to provide a 'practice-based' perspective on the debate by analysing the content of 'personalised' practices published in the literature.

Methods

The search in PubMed and EMBASE (April 2014) using the terms frequently used for personalised approaches resulted in 5333 records. 2 independent researchers used different strategies for screening, resulting in 157 articles describing 88 'personalised' practices that were implemented/presented on at least 1 individual/patient case. The content analysis was groun

SUBMITTER: Cesuroglu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4947721 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature