title: P4 medicine: the future around the corner.
abstract: Traditional medical practice has been "reactive" (doctor takes part when disease appears). The theoretical (scale free networks and complex systems), technological (high efficiency "omic" technologies) and conceptual (biology systems) advances throughout the last decade, allow us to anticipate the transition to an "anticipatory" medicine, based on health (not on disease). This review establishes the conceptual bases and discusses the principal aspects of this new medicine, known as "P4 Medicine" standing for personalized, predictive, preventive and participatory.
authors.affiliation: Ciber en Enfermedades Respiratorias, Barcelona, Spain. psobradillo@ciberes.org
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sobradillo
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pozo
authors.forename: Alvar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agustí
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D049490:Systems Biology