"patient stratification" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the process of classifying or categorizing patients according to certain predetermined criteria. For example: "The hospital used patient stratification to identify high-risk patients for targeted interventions."
Swedin, L. et al. Patient stratification and the unmet need in asthma.
Besides these technical limitations, meaningful patient stratification is another important issue to be addressed in the future.
However, few studies have demonstrated its benefit for patient stratification and biomarker identification.
Brunner M, Ng BC, Veness MJ et al. Assessment of the new nodal classification for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and its effect on patient stratification.
Notably, suppressor mutations in ATM-mutant backgrounds are different to those in BRCA1-mutant scenarios, suggesting new opportunities for patient stratification and additional therapeutic vulnerabilities for clinical exploitation.
Again, the approach could in principle be applied clinically, for patient stratification or as part of quality control for diagnostic tests.
Endotype-based patient stratification has proven crucial to the effective clinical application of antibody-derived therapies targeting TH2 cytokines in severe eosinophilic asthma16,17,18,19.
In addition, epigenetic changes seem to be important for tumor development, patient stratification and possibly for therapy.
Importantly, personalized immunomonitoring uncovered individual correlates of disease activity that enabled patient stratification into seven groups, supported by patient genotypes.
However, application of these datasets to patient stratification, and to the design of personalized therapy, is in its infancy.
We review BRAF and BRCA mutant targeted therapy, where patient stratification has had critical, albeit mixed success.
