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Patient Selection

Meaning

Patient selection is the critical, systematic clinical process of identifying individuals who are most likely to derive significant therapeutic benefit from a specific medical or hormonal therapy while simultaneously minimizing the risk of serious adverse outcomes. This careful determination involves evaluating a patient’s precise diagnosis, existing comorbidities, known contraindications, genetic predispositions, and overall health goals against the known efficacy and safety profile of the proposed treatment. Optimal patient selection is fundamental to ethical, safe, and evidence-based clinical practice.