Recruiting of patients for medicament studies
AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorChristian Johannes MÜLLER
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the recruiting of patients for one or more medicament studies. The subjects of the present invention are a method, a system and a computer program product for recruiting patients for one or more medicament studies with the aid of an individual identification feature that is applied to the packaging of a medicament.
Claims15
A process comprising:
- inputting data of a unique identifier affixed to an individual pack of a medicament into a computer by a prospective participant in a drug trial;
- identifying one or more drug trials on the basis of the inputted data;
- and
- displaying the one or more drug trials to the prospective participant.
A system comprising:
- an input unit;
- an output unit;
- a control unit;
- and
- a database,
- wherein the control unit is configured to cause the input unit to receive data of a unique identifier affixed to an individual pack of a medicament from a prospective participant in a drug trial,
- wherein the control unit is configured to identify one or more drug trials in the database on the basis of the data received,
- wherein the control unit is configured to cause the output unit to display information on the one or more identified drug trials to the prospective participant.
A computer program product comprising a data carrier and program code that is stored on the data carrier and that causes a computer, in the memory of which the program code has been loaded, to execute the following steps:
- receiving data of a unique identifier applied to an individual pack of a medicament;
- identifying one or more drug trials on the basis of the received data;
- and
- displaying information on the one or more drug trials to a prospective participant in the one or more drug trials.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.