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Disease management system and method including pain code

  • US 8,066,636 B2
  • Filed: 10/31/2007
  • Issued: 11/29/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An automated system, having a computing device configured to allow a patient to self-encode a subjective description of a pain experienced by the patient, via direct interactive dialogue between the patient and the computing device, the system comprising:

  • a software function executing on the computing device configured to allow a patient to self-encode a subjective description of said pain to represent a degree or description of pain; and

    a set of aspect words stored in a data storage operatively coupled to the computing device, wherein the set of aspect words comprises encoded numeric values representing a plurality of different aspects of subjective patient descriptions of pain;

    a pain code array generated by the software function comprising the numeric values representative of the patient'"'"'s self-encoded aspect words.

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