Personalized Medicine in Rheumatology—towards Adapting Our Care to Manifold Patient Phenotypes
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy and Drug Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2023) | Viewed by 9168
Special Issue Editors
2. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: outcomes research; clinical and observational trials; digital health; collaborative research; autoantibodies; inflammatory arthritis
2. Department of Rheumatology, Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Silkeborg, Denmark
Interests: translational research; basic science; drug discovery; biomarkers; pharmacology; development of treatment recommendations; inflammatory arthritis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rheumatologic and musculoskeletal diseases are a worldwide burden in terms of quality of life and socioeconomics, with effects reaching beyond those affected directly to also impact society at large. During the past several decades, treatment advances have improved the therapeutic options for many rheumatic conditions. Inflammatory arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis represent the most prevalent of these conditions, and people affected with these conditions have benefitted greatly from modern therapeutic options. Despite the tremendous increase in the treatment armamentarium and better and harmonized definitions of outcomes, in order to facilitate comparability between trials, a significant proportion of patients struggle with the condition and common associated comorbidities. The ideal treatment option for an individual patient remains as only one of the most urgent puzzles to solve, in order to be able to assist patients in abating disease activity as soon as possible. At this point, research is needed on all areas related to this topic, starting from the prevention of disease or pre-disease stages as well as the prevention of difficult-to-treat cases.
The proposed Special Issue aims to collect the most recent insights into clinical and translational research, as well as works describing the implementation of novel methodological approaches for advances in personalized medicine. It may address unmet needs in rare rheumatologic autoimmune diseases, connective tissue diseases and the full spectrum of arthritic disorders to help in the further guidance of tailored patient care.
No specific restriction on the heterogeneity of rheumatic conditions applies. We are especially interested in the management of care, specific targeted therapies, treatment selection, patient stratification, the application of artificial intelligence to manage the increasing data influx in various patients as well as disease characteristics and associated -omics profiling.
We invite the submission of quantitative as well as qualitative clinical research or translational research of original work in the above outlined arena. Reviews or systematic literature reviews summarizing the complexity of this arena are also welcome.
Dr. Paul Studenic
Dr. Tue Wenzel Kragstrup
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- treatment choice
- artificial intelligence
- prevention
- patient-centered care
- drug monitoring
- adherence
- -omics
- patient preference
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