摘要
Some have suggested the term“Precision”medicine replace“Personalized”medicine.I don’t like either term and I’ll tell you why.What is Precision?The word Precision can be defi ned simply as reproducibility and does not necessarily mean that the diagnosis is accurate.Thus,if the medical decision is precise but not necessarily accurate it is not very useful.Accuracy is defined as being near to the true or desired value.e.g.consider a target on a rifl e range;if the shots have a tight grouping anywhere on the target,they are precise but they are only precise and accurate if that tight grouping is in the Bull’s eye.
