Qualifying and quantifying the precision medicine rhetoric

Type Journal Article Author Jasmine Lee Author Dina Hamideh Author Camille Nebeker URL https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6242-8 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 868 Publication BMC Genomics ISSN 1471-2164 Date November 15, 2019 Journal Abbr BMC Genomics DOI 10.1186/s12864-019-6242-8 Accessed 2019-11-25 18:29:42 Library Catalog BioMed Central Abstract With the rise of precision medicine efforts worldwide, our study objective was to describe and map the emerging precision medicine landscape. A Google search was conducted between June 19, 2017 to July 20, 2017 to examine how “precision medicine” and its analogous terminology were used to describe precision medicine efforts. Resulting web-pages were reviewed for geographic location, data type(s), program aim(s), sample size, duration, and the key search terms used and recorded in a database. Descriptive statistics were applied to quantify terminology used to describe specific precision medicine efforts. Qualitative data were analyzed for content and patterns.