Applied Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice—an Approach considering More than Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy

Dear Colleagues,

Precision medicine (also called individual-based, person-based, or tailored medicine) aims to provide care and treatment according to individual conditions and needs, aiming towards the most effective treatment for a given patient and thus improving the quality of care. In clinical practice, decision support tools with reference values for vital parameters and biomarkers are used to facilitate the assessment of individuals’ health conditions. However, recent research has drawn attention to the fact that a commonly encountered range of values, the normal range/reference range, can be misleading, as the stated lower or upper limits may not match the individual’s normal range. Our own and others’ research has led to the realization that the perception of normal body temperature and fever must be updated based on science and evidence instead of tradition. The COVID-19 pandemic also made us realize that we need to think alike when it comes to assessing oxygen saturation. To apply precision medicine in clinical practice, it is necessary to also include vital parameters and biomarkers based on individual normal ranges.

This Special Issue aims to focus on essential topics relevant to improving individualized assessments of health conditions in clinical practice.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following professional areas:

Applied precision medicine in nursing, medicine, laboratory science, etc.

We are pleased to invite you to submit original research and review articles. We hope you and your colleagues will be willing to submit your work to this exciting Special Issue of Healthcare. We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Märta Sund Levander
Dr. Ewa Grodzinsky
Guest Editors

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• clinical decision making
• decision support tools
• habitual condition
• individualized assessment
• interprofessional collaboration
• measurement uncertainty
• vital parameters