Leveraging the learning health care model to improve equity in the age of genomic medicine

Learning Health Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Blizinsky, Katherine D ^a,b,c   Bonham, Vence L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

genomic medicine; health disparities; health equity; learning health care system; precision medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065053692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23796146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.10046     Document Type: Article

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