Pharmacodiagnostic testing is
pre-treatment testing performed in order to determine whether or not a
patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health c ...
is likely to
respond
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Publishers
* Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishi ...
to a given
therapy
A therapy or medical treatment (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis.
As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications. There are many different ...
. This type of test is
classified as a
predictive test and is a prerequisite for the implementation of
stratified
Stratification may refer to:
Mathematics
* Stratification (mathematics), any consistent assignment of numbers to predicate symbols
* Data stratification in statistics
Earth sciences
* Stable and unstable stratification
* Stratification, or st ...
and
personalized medicine.
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Corporations
* Blockbuster (retailer), a defunct video and game rental chain
** Blo ...
era? – Pharmacodiagnostics and rational drug development. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2008; 8, 689-695.
References
Genomics
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