Assessing the effectiveness of psychiatric medication in physicians' practices
OwnerStephen Mark Koptainventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of efficiently assessing the effectiveness of psychiatric medications as administered by physicians and more specifically to a methodology that compares the effectiveness of different medications across groups of patients based on changes in mental health scores using electronic systems. Additionally, the invention delineates when changes in medications are made during the course of medical visits for a single patient.
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A method of administering effective drug treatment including the steps of:
- providing a computer based mental health questionnaire;
- prescribing a first drug treatment;
- assigning a dependent variable to a patient;
- tracking effectiveness of said first drug treatment by completing the mental health questionnaire repeatedly;
- plotting the results of said tracking over time;
- providing a visual display of said results over time wherein said visual display includes a visual display of said first drug treatment and wherein said drug treatment can be changed from a set of choices;
- prescribing a second drug treatment to replace said first drug treatment in response to said results.
A method of administering effective drug treatment including the steps of:
- providing a computer based questionnaire;
- generating a score based upon a patient's response to said questionnaire;
- assigning a dependent variable to said patient;
- prescribing a first drug treatment based upon said dependent variable, wherein said first drug treatment includes at least one medication;
- tracking effectiveness of said first drug treatment;
- completing said questionnaire repeatedly on a regular basis and generating a new score based upon said questionnaire responses;
- plotting each score generated;
- means to determine a level of health based upon each of said scores and said dependent variable;
- providing a visual display of said scores, wherein said display includes a trend line of said first drug treatment and wherein said trend line corresponds to said level of mental health;
- prescribing a second treatment in response to said trend line.
A method of administering effective drug treatment including the steps of:
- completing a computer based questionnaire;
- generating a data point based upon a patient's response to said questionnaire;
- assigning a dependent variable to said patient;
- prescribing a first drug treatment based upon said dependent variable and said data point;
- tracking effectiveness of said first data treatment by said patient periodically completing said questionnaire and generating a new data point base upon said questionnaire responses;
- plotting each data point generated;
- assigning each data point to a level of health;
- providing a visual display of said data points over time, said visual display including a visual display of said first drug treatment and further including a trend line that corresponds to said level of health, and wherein said drug treatment can be changed;
- prescribing a second drug treatment based on said trend line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.