Systems and methods for adjusting medical treatment to reduce likelihood of prescription cascade

A system for generating instructions for adjusting a medical treatment of a patient for reducing likelihood of a prescription cascade (PC), comprising:

• at least one hardware processor executing a code for:
• detecting an indication of a new symptom appearing in a patient being treated with a plurality of medications for at least one medical condition;
• computing a value indicative of risk of the new symptom being an adverse drug reaction (ADR) of one or a combination of the plurality of medications;
• detecting an indication of another new medication for treating the patient;
• computing likelihood of PC when the new medication is for treating the new symptom and the value is according to a requirement;
• generating a request for at least one substitute medication for the one or combination of the plurality of medications when likelihood of PC is detected;
• and
• generating instructions for adjusting treatment of the patient by substituting the one or combination of the plurality of medications with the at least one substitute medication, and for terminating administration of the new medication or avoiding administration of the new medication.

A computer program product for generating instructions for adjusting a medical treatment of a patient for reducing likelihood of a prescription cascade (PC), comprising:

• a non-transitory memory storing thereon code for execution by at least one hardware process, the code including instructions for:
• detecting an indication of a new symptom appearing in a patient being treated with a plurality of medications for at least one medical condition;
• computing a value indicative of risk of the new symptom being an adverse drug reaction (ADR) of one or a combination of the plurality of medications;
• detecting an indication of another new medication for treating the patient;
• computing likelihood of PC when the new medication is for treating the new symptom and the value is according to a requirement;
• generating a request for at least one substitute medication for the one or combination of the plurality of medications when likelihood of PC is detected;
• and
• generating instructions for adjusting treatment of the patient by substituting the one or combination of the plurality of medications with the at least one substitute medication, and for terminating administration of the another medication or avoiding administration of new medication.