METHODS FOR MAKING COMPLEX THERAPEUTIC CLINICAL DECISIONS
First Claim
1. A method for making therapeutic decisions for remediating the health condition of a human patient, comprising:
- identifying a plurality of health parameters including physiological and/or pathological parameters typical for a disorder, wherein the number of health parameters is at least three;
forming a multidimensional health space, wherein each of the identified parameters defines a dimension of the health space and time defines a further dimension of the health space;
determining at least a first space range and second space range within the health space, wherein the first space range defines a healthy condition and each of the identified health parameters comprise target values, and wherein the second space range defines an unhealthy condition at least one of the identified health parameters has an undesirable value;
collecting measured values of the identified health parameters of the patient defining an initial health state of the patient and defining a point in the health space;
determining a target trajectory comprising the shortest space curve between the initial health state and the first space range;
recursively collecting measured values of the identified health parameters and calculating the patient'"'"'s health state as a function of time defining patient trajectory comprising a space curve; and
determining an instruction value comprising a perturbation of one or more identified health parameters calculated to cause the patient trajectory to evolve toward the first space range.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods of making therapeutic decisions in the course of medical treatment. Some embodiments include using mathematical methods such as analytic geometric methods to determine the relationship of a patient'"'"'s initial and/or current health state to a desired health state and/or an undesired health state. Furthermore, some embodiments include defining a health feature space including a plurality of health parameters and time, and representing the time evolution of the patient health state as a space curve trajectory in a multidimensional space. Still further some embodiments include calculating a target trajectory and/or a complication trajectory and determining which health parameters to adjust in order to produce a desired time evolution result.
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15 Claims
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1. A method for making therapeutic decisions for remediating the health condition of a human patient, comprising:
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identifying a plurality of health parameters including physiological and/or pathological parameters typical for a disorder, wherein the number of health parameters is at least three; forming a multidimensional health space, wherein each of the identified parameters defines a dimension of the health space and time defines a further dimension of the health space; determining at least a first space range and second space range within the health space, wherein the first space range defines a healthy condition and each of the identified health parameters comprise target values, and wherein the second space range defines an unhealthy condition at least one of the identified health parameters has an undesirable value; collecting measured values of the identified health parameters of the patient defining an initial health state of the patient and defining a point in the health space; determining a target trajectory comprising the shortest space curve between the initial health state and the first space range; recursively collecting measured values of the identified health parameters and calculating the patient'"'"'s health state as a function of time defining patient trajectory comprising a space curve; and determining an instruction value comprising a perturbation of one or more identified health parameters calculated to cause the patient trajectory to evolve toward the first space range. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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