Each consultation followed a protocol incorporating individualised counselling, tailored according to assessment results, and was delivered using the principles of MI.
The identification of relevant biomarkers of MEK inhibitor responses remains a high priority that can be used to predict patient sensitivity and to tailor individualised therapies.
A reliable prediction of outcome after nephrectomy by such markers would be valuable to tailor individualised follow-up schedules and to provide adjuvant therapies to patients at high risk of relapse [ 6].
In the curative setting, therefore, there is a need for prognostic markers that can help to stratify patients according to risk, to enable follow-up schedules to be individualised and to tailor eligibility criteria for trials of neo-adjuvant and adjuvant therapies.
However, whenever advanced haemodynamic targets are used, treatment can be individualised, in other words tailored to the patients' actual need rather than simply just treating protocol based numbers (MAP or CVP), which may be beneficial for some, but may harm others [ 34].
Rather than referring to "individualised medicine" focusing on individualised care tailored to patient needs, the concept of "personalised medicine" in today's age of genetic research denotes the molecular biologic specification of individuals [ 1].
To facilitate self-management, policymakers advocate that treatments are tailored, personalised or individualised to patients' needs 1 and that patients are supported to self-manage their conditions.
Following the assessment, the nurse will provide individualised information, advice and support tailored to each patient, in order to help men improve their symptoms or cope better with symptoms they cannot improve.
Stratifying patients into subgroups according to GGT may be used for patient counselling, tailoring surveillance, individualised treatment planning, and clinical trial design.
