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Personalized medicine and genomics: challenges and opportunities in assessing effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and future research priorities.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20086232     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Personalized medicine is health care that tailors interventions to individual variation in risk and treatment response. Although medicine has long strived to achieve this goal, advances in genomics promise to facilitate this process. Relevant to present-day practice is the use of genomic information to classify individuals according to disease susceptibility or expected responsiveness to a pharmacologic treatment and to provide targeted interventions. A symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making on 23 October 2007 highlighted the challenges and opportunities posed in translating advances in molecular medicine into clinical practice. A panel of US experts in medical practice, regulatory policy, technology assessment, and the financing and organization of medical innovation was asked to discuss the current state of practice and research on personalized medicine as it relates to their own field. This article reports on the issues raised, discusses potential approaches to meet these challenges, and proposes directions for future work. The case of genetic testing to inform dosing with warfarin, an anticoagulant, is used to illustrate differing perspectives on evidence and decision making for personalized medicine.
Authors:
Rena Conti; David L Veenstra; Katrina Armstrong; Lawrence J Lesko; Scott D Grosse
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-01-04
Journal Detail:
Title:  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making     Volume:  30     ISSN:  1552-681X     ISO Abbreviation:  Med Decis Making     Publication Date:    2010 May-Jun
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-05-21     Completed Date:  2010-06-30     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8109073     Medline TA:  Med Decis Making     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  328-40     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Anticoagulants / economics,  therapeutic use
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Making
Delivery of Health Care
Evidence-Based Medicine / economics*
Forecasting
Genetic Research
Genetic Testing
Genetics, Medical
Genome, Human
Genomics / economics*
Humans
Individualized Medicine / economics*,  trends
Pharmacogenetics / economics
Research / trends
Warfarin / economics,  therapeutic use
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Anticoagulants; 81-81-2/Warfarin

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