SYSTEM FOR MONITORING CHEMOTHERAPY-ASSOCIATED ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
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Abstract
A system adapted to monitor adverse drug reactions in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy which comprises a patient-based data terminal 3 such as a mobile telephone adapted to provide for periodic entry by the patient of data on a plurality of predetermined adverse reactions. The data is processed for display to the patient and for transmission to a remove server 7. The data is also processed to generate red or amber alerts which may be displayed to the patient and sent by the server 7 to a pager 13 held by the healthcare professional. The server 7 processes the received data for display and review via a secure web page. Alerts may be of different levels of urgency with urgent alerts being sent immediately to the pager 13, but less urgent alerts being sent in batches at regular intervals.
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24 Claims
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1-12. -12. (canceled)
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13. A system adapted to monitor side-effects in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, the system comprising:
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a patient-based data terminal adapted to provide for periodic entry by the patient of data on a plurality of adverse drug reactions, to process the entered data, to display the processed data to the patient and to transmit the entered data; a server adapted to receive the data transmitted from the data terminal, to process the data, and to transmit the processed data for display; a remote terminal adapted to receive the processed data from the server and display it; and an alerting device for use by a healthcare professional; wherein the patient-based data terminal and the server both process the data independently based on the same criteria to generate selectively from the entered data an alert of a first or second type, the patient-based data terminal displays said alert of the second type to the patient, the server collects alerts of the first type into batches and regularly transmits the batches to said alerting device, and the server immediately transmits alerts of the second type individually to said alerting device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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