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Precision medicine, also referred to as personalized medicine, is a vision of medicine that incorporates person-specific genetic and molecular information to guide the prevention of disease and therapeutic strategies. This chapter briefly describes historical changes leading up to precision medicine and outlines key concepts related to its definition. The need for a holistic framework, in which ethical and social considerations are integrated in precision medicine, is stressed. The specialties of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine will be profoundly impacted by the transcendental changes occurring with advances in precision medicine.

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  1. Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Section, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Jose L. Gomez

  2. Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Naftali Kaminski

  3. Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Blanca E. Himes

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  2. Assistant Professor of Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Blanca E. Himes

  3. Boehringer-Ingelheim Endowed, Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

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Gomez, J.L., Kaminski, N., Himes, B.E. (2020). Introduction. In: Gomez, J., Himes, B., Kaminski, N. (eds) Precision in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. Respiratory Medicine. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31507-8_1

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