US 2006/0241972 A1 · Medical outcomes systems

Abstract

A method of measuring the effectiveness of a surgical or medical treatment carried out on a patient population is provided. The method involves the steps of selecting a patient population, deriving pre-treatment score and post-treatment scores for each patient based on their questionnaire responses to quality of life-related criteria, deriving an adjusted score by subtracting the pre-treatment score from the post-treatment score, and analyzing the distribution of patients having each adjusted score to provide a measure of the effectiveness of the surgical or medical treatment. The population of patients may includes patients having different values of a variable affecting the effectiveness of the surgical treatment. The effect of these variables on the adjusted scores may be analyzed by a computerized statistical software program.

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Dependent claims

A method of measuring the effectiveness of a surgical treatment carried out on a patient population, comprising the steps of:

(a) selecting a population of patients that will be undergoing a surgical treatment, wherein each patient has undergone at least one previous treatment;
(b) before the surgical treatment, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination for each of the following four criteria:
(i) symptoms relieved by the previous treatment(s);
(ii) absence of complications from the previous treatment(s);
(iii) absence of narcotic use;
and
(iv) return to work or pre-morbidity life activities;
(c) for each positive determination in step (b), assigning a first numerical score and combining the scores to produce a first total score for each said patient;
(d) at a determined time interval after the surgical treatment is performed, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination for each of the following criteria:
(i) symptoms relieved by the surgical treatment;
(ii) absence of complications from the surgical treatment;
(iii) absence of narcotic use;
and
(iv) return to work or pre-morbidity life activities;
and
(e) for each positive determination in step (d), assigning a second numerical score to produce a second total score for each said patient.

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A method of measuring the effectiveness of a medical treatment carried out on a patient population, comprising the steps of;

(a) selecting a population of patients prescribed a medical treatment, wherein each patient has undergone at least one previous treatment;
(b) before the medical treatment, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination for each the following four criteria:
(i) symptom relief by a previous treatment;
(ii) absence of Complications from a previous treatment;
(iii) compliance with the previous treatment;
and
(iv) return to work or pre-morbidity life activities;
(c) for each positive determination in step (b), assigning a first numerical score to produce a first total score for each said patient,
(d) at a determined time interval after the medical treatment is completed, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination for each of the following criteria:
(i) symptoms relieved by the medical treatment;
(ii) absence of complications from the medical treatment;
(iii) compliance with the medical treatment;
and
(iv) return to work or pre morbidity life activities;
and
(e) for each positive determination in step (d), assigning a second numerical score to produce a second total score for each said patient.

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A method of measuring the effectiveness of a surgical treatment carried out on a patient population, comprising the steps of:

(a) selecting a population of patients that will be undergoing a surgical treatment, wherein each said patient has not undergone previous treatments;
(b) before the surgical treatment, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination for each of the following two criteria:
(i) absence of narcotic use;
and
(ii) return to work or pre-morbidity life activities;
(c) for each positive determination in step ), assigning a fist numerical score and combining the scores with one said numerical score to produce a first total score for each said patient;
(d) at a determined time interval after the surgical treatment is preformed, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination for each of the following criteria:
(i) symptoms relieved by the surgical treatment;
(ii) absence of complications from the surgical treatment;
(iii) absence of narcotic use;
and
(iv) return to work or pre-morbidity life activities;
and
(e) for each positive determination in step (d), assigning a second numerical score to produce a second total score for each said patient.

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A method of measuring the effectiveness of a medical treatment carried out on a patient population, comprising the steps of:

(a) selecting a population of patients prescribed a medical treatment wherein each said patient has not undergone previous treatments;
(b) before the medical treatment, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination to the criterion of whether the patient has returned to work or pre-morbidity life activities;
(c) for a positive determination in step (b), assigning a first numerical score and combining the score with two said numerical scores to produce a first total score for each said patient;
(d) at a determined time interval after the medical treatment is completed, for each said patient assigning a positive or negative determination for each of the following criteria:
(i) symptoms relieved by the medical treatment;
(ii) absence of complications from the medical treatment;
(iii) compliance with the medical treatment;
and
(iv) return to work or pre-morbidity life activities;
(e) for each positive determination in step (d), assigning a second numerical score to produce a second total score for each said patient;

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