Method of improving drug treatment
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method for improving drug treatment for a disease condition, comprising:
- storing a plurality of disease conditions by a diagnosis code, wherein each diagnosis code corresponds to a particular disease condition;
storing recommended treatments indexed for each particular disease condition;
receiving as input an actual treatment for the particular disease condition;
storing data about a clinical outcome of the actual treatment; and
modifying the recommended treatments for each particular disease condition based on the data stored about the clinical outcome.
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Abstract
A computer implemented method and system for improving drug treatment of patients in local communities by providing drug treatment protocols for particular disease states, such as Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) classifications. The protocol contains ranked recommendations for drug treatments of the disease state, and the computer system collects information about the risks and benefits of the drug treatments. The information collected about the treatments is used to modify the rankings of the drug treatments in the protocol. In one specific embodiment of the system, where the disease state has a microbial etiology and the treatments are antimicrobial drugs, the emergence of drug resistance is quickly detected by determining the percentage of microbial isolates that are found to be resistant to antimicrobial therapy in the community where the therapy is being provided (such as a community hospital or city-wide health care system). An increase in the percentage of resistant isolates produces a re-ranking of recommended drug therapies to avoid further use of the drug to which resistance has developed, and helps quickly introduce more effective drugs that will improve the effectiveness and lower the cost of treatment. In yet other embodiments, a sum of medication (e.g. dosing) errors and adverse effects (e.g. allergic reactions) are tracked by the system to identify drugs that are poorly tolerated in particular populations served by the hospital where the treatment is being provided. Data is collected about the safety and effectiveness of all types of drug therapies in the community being served, and this data is used to modify the drug protocols.
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31 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method for improving drug treatment for a disease condition, comprising:
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storing a plurality of disease conditions by a diagnosis code, wherein each diagnosis code corresponds to a particular disease condition; storing recommended treatments indexed for each particular disease condition; receiving as input an actual treatment for the particular disease condition; storing data about a clinical outcome of the actual treatment; and modifying the recommended treatments for each particular disease condition based on the data stored about the clinical outcome. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer system for improving drug treatment for a disease condition, comprising:
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storing a plurality of disease conditions by a diagnosis code that corresponds to a Diagnosis Related Group; storing a protocol of a recommended treatment or treatments for each of the disease conditions; receiving an input about an actual treatment for the disease condition; comparing the actual treatment to the protocol of recommended treatments, and providing an indication of a departure from the protocol; collecting data about the success of the actual treatment in treating the disease condition; modifying the protocol in response to the data collected. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer system for improving antimicrobial treatment by reducing antimicrobial resistance in a community where treatment is to be provided, comprising:
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storing a plurality of microbially induced disease conditions by a diagnosis code, wherein each diagnosis code corresponds to a particular disease condition having a microbial etiology; storing probable microbial etiologies of the disease condition; storing recommended treatments for each particular disease condition, in ranked order; calculating a current indicator of the treatment success of an antimicrobial agent against the particular disease condition in the community where the treatment is to be provided; and displaying the recommended treatments to assist in the selection of an actual treatment. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A computer readable medium having stored thereon a data structure, comprising:
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a first data field containing data representing a diagnosis code, wherein each diagnosis code corresponds to a particular disease condition; a second data field containing recommended treatments indexed for each particular disease condition; a third data field containing data about the success of each of the recommended treatments in treating the particular disease condition; wherein during a predetermined data processing operation, one of the particular disease conditions is associated with the recommended treatments indexed for the particular disease condition, and an indicator of the success of each of the recommended treatments. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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31. A computer system comprising:
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a central processing unit; memory; and a data structure stored in memory, the data structure including; a first data field containing data representing a diagnosis code, wherein each diagnosis code corresponds to a particular disease condition; a second data field containing recommended treatments indexed for each particular disease condition; a third data field containing data about the success of each of the recommended treatments in treating the particular disease condition; wherein during a predetermined data processing operation, one of the particular disease conditions is associated with the recommended treatments indexed for the particular disease condition, and an indicator of the success of each of the recommended treatments.
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