Palliative Care as ‘Personalized Medicine’
03/19/24 at 03:00 AM
Palliative Care as ‘Personalized Medicine’
Hospice News, by Jim Parker; 3/18/24
The term “personalized medicine” is often used to describe health needs based on a patient’s genetics. However, more stakeholders are applying the term to palliative care. Personalized medicine is a step away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health care. The model uses information gathered from a patient’s genome to plan for care, treatment and services, and to some extent, predict a likely health trajectory, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.