Active agent delivery method
OwnerTeresa Joshi, Patricia Walkerinventors
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Abstract
A method for active agent delivery is provided which includes orchestrating focus groups and clinical studies and the distribution of educational materials and guidelines for counseling patients with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid adverse side effects while taking doses of active agent and to receive prescriptions for the doses.
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A method for delivering an active agent to a patient in a manner avoiding the occurrence of an adverse side effect known or suspected of being caused by the active agent, said method comprising the steps of:
- distributing educational materials to medical office personnel including prescribers who are qualified to prescribe the doses for patients, said educational materials including information as to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid adverse side effects while taking the doses and to receive a prescription for the doses;
- providing guidelines for counseling the patients with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid the adverse side effect while taking the dose and to receive prescriptions for the doses;
- orchestrating focus groups for potential patients with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid the adverse side effect and to receive the prescription determining from patient feedback a preferred order of presentation of the distributed materials;
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- assessing the perceived knowledge of the potential patient before prescribing the doses for the patients.
(canceled)
A method for evaluating effectiveness of educational materials used in a method for delivery of an active agent to a patient, said method comprising the steps of:
- distributing educational materials to counselors who are qualified to counsel patients, said educational materials including information as to what patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid adverse side effects while taking the doses and to receive a prescription for the doses;
- providing guidelines to the counselor for counseling individuals with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid the adverse side effect while taking the dose and to receive prescriptions for the doses;
- subsequent to counseling, orchestrating focus groups for the counseled individuals with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid the adverse side effect and to receive the prescription determining from patient feedback a preferred order of presentation of the distributed materials;
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- assessing the perceived knowledge of the counseled individual.
(canceled)
A method for conducting a clinical study for enabling delivery of an active agent, said method comprising the steps of:
- preparing prescription doses of an active agent and placebo;
- providing unidentified prescription doses and placebos to prescribers who are qualified to dispose the unidentified prescription doses and placebos to patients;
- distributing educational materials to the prescribers, said educational materials including information as to what the patient needs to know and what the patents must do in order to both avoid an undesirable side effect and to receive one of the unidentified prescription doses and placebos;
- providing guidelines to the prescribers for counseling the patients with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid the undesirable side effect and to receive on of the unidentified prescription doses and placebo;
- requiring acknowledgment of receipt of the educational material and guidelines;
- providing survey material for distribution to the patients regarding what the patients need to know about avoiding the undesirable side effect while taking on the unidentified prescribed doses and the placebos and implementation by the patients of what the patients must do in order to both avoid the undesirable side effect and receive one of the unidentified prescription doses and placebos;
- receiving completed surveys from the patients;
- advising the prescribes as to providing one of the unidentified prescription doses and placebos to the patients;
- receiving reports from the prescribers as to the effectiveness of administered prescription doses and placebos;
- orchestrating focus groups for patients with regard to what the patient need to know and what the patient must do in order to both avoid the adverse side effect and to receive a prescription for the doses;
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- statistically analyzing received surveys.
(canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.