1) Personalized health care is the foundation of rational health reform and involves understanding an individual's health risks, disease progression, and response to treatment through tools like genomics, proteomics, and predictive models.
2) This paradigm shift moves away from reactive, disease-oriented care to predictive, preventative, and personalized approaches through a patient's personalized health plan.
3) Key factors in successful health reform include universal access to health education and planning, delivery system integration, and payment reform to support personalized and preventative approaches.
10/01/09 Studies by Caggiano et al. (Cancer 2005) and Weiss et al. (Proc Am Soc Clin Oncol 2003) have estimated the national incidence of hospitalizations for FN at ~60,000 which gives an incidence of disease of ~0.78%. In the sentinel work by Boggs et al. (Cancer 1960), 44% of cancer patients with fever were found to have an infection. In a review of 7 hospital discharge databases with ~12M patients (all types of tumors), Caggiano et al. (Cancer 2005) found that the overall mortality rate in hospitalized neutropenic patients was 6.8%. Also found that the LOS was 10.1 +/- 11.2 days Mean cost for hospitalization from FN was $14,900 +/- $23,600