José Antonio Sacristán
Patient-centered medicine and patient-oriented research: improving health outcomes for individual patients
Eli Lilly (Spain)
patientcentered medicine developing alongside concepts personalized medicine tailored therapeutics main objective patientcentered medicine improve health outcomes individual patients everyday clinical practice taking account patients objectives preferences values well available economic resourcespatientcentered medicine implies paradigm shift relationship doctors patients also requires development patientoriented research patientoriented research based evaluation medical interventions average patient identification best intervention every individual patient study heterogeneity assignment greater value observations exceptions development informationbased technologies help close gap clinical research clinical practice fundamental step advance fieldevidencebased medicine patient centered medicine contradictory complementary movements possible practice patientcentered medicine based evidence possible practice evidencebased medicine distance individual patient