How (highly unique) Mrs Jones can meet (highly scientific) precision medicine? An introduction to values-based practice.

There is a tension in contemporary clinical care between generalization, as required in the scientific process of evidence-based medicine, and personalization, as required for the autonomy and care's meaning of an always unique patient. We present here some of the key elements of values-based practice, a shared decision-making process that aims to reconcile these two major trends in clinical care. Values practice is rooted in pioneer work about values from 'ordinary language' analytic philosophy (the 'Oxford School').