Do you know about ‘Precision Medicine' Approach? In this article we discuss about Precision Medicine, and its applications for individualized care and treatment of patients in variety of diseases. What is Precision Medicine? The basic concept of precision medicine is to provide individualized care by prevention and development of treatment strategies that take individual’s characteristics and variables into consideration.
Currently, medical treatments and decisions mostly follow the evidence-based model where they are designed for an average patient, which is similar to the one-size-fits-all approach. This decreases the effectiveness of treatment provided for each individual, where it may work for some part of patient population, but may not work for the rest of the treated group. Precision medicine can improve the treatment provided to each individual by tailoring the medical…
