Toward Precision Diagnostics

In January 2015 President Obama announced funding for the Precision Medicine Initiative, a multifaceted program that seeks to develop an individualized approach to disease prevention and treatment. Accounting for individual variability, precision medicine aims to deliver “the right treatment at the right dose to the right patient at the right time”, embracing human variation and its drivers: inheritance, exposures, lifestyle, and life experience.^1,2 Beyond treatment innovations, full realization of the benefits of precision medicine and individualized health care will require refinements to diagnostic practice – the medical history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests. Within the framework of this comprehensive initiative, we seek to advance the concept of precision diagnostics, and more specifically, precision emergency department (ED) diagnostic testing.

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