Individualising / personalizing hemodialysate composition

Nitrogenous Compounds in Hemodialysate.

Schatz challenge of individualising care

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Individualising drug dispensaries in a university hospital.

BACKGROUND In hospitals and other healthcare institutions drugs are routinely stored in designated satellite areas on the wards. Often ad hoc decisions are made by clinicians and nurses regarding drug type and quantity to be stored. As a result the number of different drugs and drug packages in storage tends to increase, which may lead to inefficient drug handling and become a potential risk fa...

Personalizing immunotherapy

Despite great expectations and research efforts, anticancer immunotherapy has not yet become a definitive cure. Perhaps, this is because past reductionist approaches were too simplistic for the patient-specific complex system of co-evolving tumor cells and host immunity. Recent efforts based on a systems-based approach promise improved clinical outcomes engendered by a dynamic modification of p...

An evidence based approach to individualising treatment.

To which groups of patients can the results of clinical trials be applied? This question is often inappropriately answered by reference to the trial entry criteria. Instead, the benefit and harm (adverse events, discomfort of treatment, etc) of treatment could be assessed separately for individual patients. Patients at greatest risk of a disease will have the greatest net benefit as benefit to ...