| Will "personalized medicine" need personalized laboratory approach? | |
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PMID: 18938148 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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BACKGROUND: Medicine is evolving on the whole, so laboratory medicine does. Great emphasis is currently presently placed on personalized medicine, particularly by many of the most influential healthcare-linked institutions, communities, organisations and companies. METHODS: Personalized medicine is an appealing terminology, meaning an individualised approach to patients for either diagnosis or treatment using the most advanced and proper scientific and technological tools, which has its basis on a consolidate literature regarding the main ways for drawing more useful information by laboratory tests. RESULTS: A novel approach tailored around personalized medicine would allow construction of a revolutionary healthcare framework, where a list of laboratory tests adopted for each individual should be descriptive enough of the personal metabolic characteristics, as to be useful in a lifelong perspective, with the needed adjustments due to peculiar genetic variations and/or diseases. CONCLUSIONS: By a "personalized" approach, supported by informatics and computer science, each individual would benefit of an "in progress" assessment and the variations from the steady state timely evidenced and acknowledged. |
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Authors:
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Gian Cesare Guidi; Giuseppe Lippi |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2008-10-08 |
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Title: Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry Volume: 400 ISSN: 1873-3492 ISO Abbreviation: Clin. Chim. Acta Publication Date: 2009 Feb |
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Created Date: 2009-01-02 Completed Date: 2009-02-13 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 1302422 Medline TA: Clin Chim Acta Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 25-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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Sezione di Chimica Clinica, Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy. giancesare.guidi@univr.it |
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Clinical Chemistry Tests Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods* Humans Medical Informatics Medicine / methods* |
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