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Tailoring Medication to Individual Characteristics

  • US 20090132460A1
  • Filed: 11/20/2008
  • Published: 05/21/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A medical outcome prediction tool for predicting an individual patient'"'"'s medical outcomes, the medical outcome prediction tool implementing a method comprising:

  • a. identifying patients having a same disease;

    b. selecting a set of characteristics unique to an individual;

    c. determining the similarities between the individual and other cases by;

    i. calculating the number of matches between the individual and the cases over the set of characteristics; and

    ii. using the result of the calculated matches to determine a similarity score; and

    d. calculating the expected outcome for the individual that is proportional to a weighted sum of outcomes of similar the cases.

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