Different drugs with the same active ingredient do work differently for different patients, as everyone who has taken maintenance drugs knows.
It could involve deterioration of the bladder lining, dysfunction of the bladder nerves, pelvic floor dysfunction, and a number of other issues that tend to present differently for different patients, says Jennifer Linehan, urologist and associate professor of urology and urologic oncology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in California.
This indicates that the meaning of the concept "delirium" could differ for different patients, and may not always be consistent with health care professionals' understanding of the concept.
One primary problem seems to be how to get the right dose of a drug through a patch for different patients under differing conditions.
It is common, however, for different patients to respond differently to a drug.
Differences in caring behavior for different patients were related to the influence of burnout on the nurses' personality traits and appraisal of patients' characteristics.
There were differences in the shapes of the time-activity curves of the kidneys for different patients, also among different treatment cycles in the same patient (Figure 1).
Different drugs work for different patients.
"There are different needs for different patients," he said.
"It isn't that providers are doing different things for different patients," Dr. Sequist said.
Gene-based tests are also beginning to be used to pick the most appropriate drugs for different patients.
