Cure8 research brief
The review lays out a multidimensional precision-care model that could help make IBD treatment more personalized, reduce unnecessary continuous medication, and use biomarker and technology-driven adjustments to manage flares and maintenance more precisely.
Clinicians, researchers, and adult patients interested in precision, biomarker-driven management of IBD
This paper argues that treating chronic GI conditions like IBD should move beyond simple intermittent dosing and toward a multidimensional DPT framework.
The framework includes four linked dimensions: symptom-guided treatment for flares, disease-subtype-guided baseline therapy, pathophysiology-guided dynamic changes using biomarkers and smart technologies, and tailoring decisions to the individual's context and preferences.
The authors review enabling tools such as continuous physiologic monitoring (example: 24-hour pH-impedance in GERD), therapeutic drug monitoring, and emerging smart drug-delivery technologies (for example, responsive hydrogels) that could allow therapies to be adjusted in near real-time.
They present this as a conceptual, forward-looking model rather than reporting new clinical trial results.
This is a narrative review and perspective article presenting a conceptual framework; it does not present new clinical trial results. Many proposed tools and technologies need clinical validation before routine clinical use.
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