Clinical Risk Assessment and Prediction
Medicine is by definition a personalized endeavor. Hippocrates emphasized the importance of integrating information about the specific individual and their environment into clinical judgment (Kleisiaris et al., J Med Ethics Hist Med 7:6, 2014). Modern western medicine increasingly makes use of formal Personalized and Precision Medicine (PPM) modalities such as growth curves, risk biomarkers, disease staging, and statistical models. This chapter provides an overview of these tools, describes their contexts of applications, and summarizes their adoption to healthcare. A workflow for developing clinical risk models is also established.
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