Highlights
- •Including newer data approaches can improve precision health decisions.
- •Omics in research may lead to better assessment and management to improve care.
- •Electronic sensors allow real-time monitoring of behavior and biology in research.
- •Geospatial data provide an important lens to improve precision health approaches.
- •Broader understanding of the complexity of human health and illness will inform health care policy.
Abstract
Precision health can provide an avenue to bridge and integrate ways of knowing for
research and practice. Nurse scientists have a long-standing interest in using multiple
sources of information to address research questions of significance to the profession
and discipline of nursing, which can lead to much needed contributions to precision
health care. In this paper, nursing scientists discuss emerging research methods including
omics, electronic sensors, and geospatial data, and mixed methods that further develop
nursing science and contribute to precision health initiatives. The authors provide
exemplars of the types of knowledge and ways of knowing that, using these and other
advanced data and analytic strategies, may advance precision health within the context
of nursing science.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 28, 2019
Accepted:
May 25,
2019
Received in revised form:
May 24,
2019
Received:
January 12,
2019
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