Patient follow-up research support system, patient follow-up research support method, support control apparatus, terminal device, and program storage medium

A support control apparatus for supporting follow-up research on a patient who has received administration of a medicine and capable of communicating information data with a terminal device for information registration via a network, the support control apparatus comprising:

• an administration-completion-information acquisition processing section configured to acquire administration completion information issued to the patient who has received the administration of the medicine from the terminal device together with unique identification information for identifying the patient;
• a response request processing section configured to extract, based on the administration completion information and a preset extraction condition, the patient corresponding to the extraction condition as a research target person and to transmit a request for response to the terminal device corresponding to the extracted research target person;
• a response acquisition processing section configured to receive response information transmitted from the terminal device in response to the request for response and to store the received response information;
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• an analysis processing section configured to estimate a condition change of the patient after the administration of the medicine based on the response information and to output an estimation result.

A patient follow-up research support method performed by a patient follow-up research support system for supporting follow-up research on a patient who has received administration of a medicine, the patient follow-up research support system including a terminal device for information registration and a support control apparatus capable of communicating information data with the terminal device via a network, the method comprising:

• accepting, by the terminal device, an input of administration completion information issued to the patient who has received the administration of the medicine, and transmitting the administration completion information to the support control apparatus together with unique identification information for identifying the patient;
• receiving, by the support control apparatus, the administration completion information transmitted from the terminal device and storing the received administration completion information in association with the unique identification information;
• extracting, by the support control apparatus, based on the administration completion information and a preset extraction condition, the patient corresponding to the extraction condition as a research target person and transmitting a request for response to the terminal device corresponding to the extracted research target person;
• transmitting, by the terminal device to the support control apparatus together with the unique identification information, response information that represents a condition of the patient after the administration of the medicine and that is input in response to the request for response transmitted from the support control apparatus;
• receiving, by the support control apparatus, the response information transmitted from the terminal device and storing the received response information;
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• estimating, by the support control apparatus, a condition change of the patient after the administration of the medicine based on the response information, and outputting an estimation result.