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Editorial
. 2023 Sep 8;3(1):e151.
doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.429. eCollection 2023.

Personalized infection prevention and control: a concept whose time has arrived

Alessia Savoldi  1 , Nico T Mutters  2 , Evelina Tacconelli  1   3
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Editorial

Personalized infection prevention and control: a concept whose time has arrived

Alessia Savoldi et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. .

Abstract

Personalized medicine has been progressively implemented in several diagnostic and therapeutic patients' algorithms, based on the common assumption that tailoring interventions, practices, and/or therapies to individual patients' clinical, biological, epidemiological, and genetic characteristics would optimize their effectiveness and reduce adverse effects. The potential benefit of the precision medicine approach has been recently considered for possible implementation in the field of infection prevention and control. The commentary explores available evidence and assesses possible future scenarios where, through advanced modeling approaches, we would be able to provide personalized prediction algorithms identifying at-risk patients who deserve the implementation of tailored preventive measures.

Keywords: hospital transmission; infection prevention; personalized medicine.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.

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Integration of multiple data sources to personalize the implementation of infection prevention and control measures.
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