In the era of Precisionmedicine and big data, Who is normal?

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 319, Issue 19, 2018, Pages 1981-1982

  Manrai, Arjun K ^a   Patel, Chirag J ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; NOTE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; ADULT; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NUTRITION; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; DATASETS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PRECISION MEDICINE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 85047726478     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.2009     Document Type: Note

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