US 7,008,378 B2Granted

Patient conditional diagnosis assessment and symptom tracking system

OwnerMelanie A. Deaninventor

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Abstract

A system and method for conditionally diagnosing, assessing and tracking the symptoms of patients having mental or physical disorders involves providing an interview instrument having diagnostic and assessment information for a selected disorder. A clinician conducts a first interview of a patient to identify and assess the patient's symptoms. The clinician records the symptoms and assessment on the interview instrument. Alternatively, the patient records symptoms on the interview instrument and the clinician then conducts a first interview. The clinician develops a diagnosis and treatment plan and records them on the instrument. The clinician conducts one or more subsequent interviews of the patient for identifying and assessing the patient's symptoms and records any changes in the symptoms on the interview instrument for documenting the effects of the treatment plan. The interview instrument includes a joint use portion having a list of symptoms and assessment criteria and spaces for recording the patient's symptoms and an assessment, a diagnostic portion having predetermined, recognized diagnostic criteria for use by the clinician, a patient-use portion having educational information for use by the patient and a follow-up portion for tracking the effects of a treatment plan across multiple subsequent visits.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A method for conditionally diagnosing a selected disorder in a patient and assessing and tracking symptoms of the patient during treatment for the disorder, comprising the steps of:

a. providing an interview instrument including diagnostic and assessment information for a selected disorder, a joint-use portion for use by both said clinician and said patient and a follow-up portion, said diagnostic and assessment information, said joint-use portion and said follow-up portion each including a list of symptoms of said selected disorder;
b. a clinician conducting a first interview of said patient for identifying and assessing the patient's symptoms of said disorder in accordance with said list of symptoms of said selected disorder and said diagnostic and assessment information;
c. said clinician selecting said patient's identified symptoms from said list of symptoms on said joint-use portion and recording said symptoms and an assessment of said patient's identified symptoms by said clinician on said joint use portion;
and said patient reviewing said joint-use portion and recording revised symptoms or assessments on said joint-use portion and/or selecting and recording additional symptoms on said joint-use portion;
d. said clinician developing a diagnosis of said disorder based on said recorded symptoms, developing a treatment plan for treatment of said disorder, and recording said treatment plan on said interview instrument;
e. said clinician conducting a subsequent interview of said patient for assessing changes in symptoms of said patient by reference to said list of symptoms on said follow-up portion;
and
f. said clinician recording said changes in symptoms of said patient on said follow-up portion of said interview instrument for tracking effects of said treatment plan.

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A method for conditionally diagnosing a selected disorder in a patient and assessing and tracking symptoms of the patient, comprising the steps of:

a. providing an interview instrument;
said interview instrument including a diagnostic portion for use by a clinician, a patient-use portion for use by said patient, a joint-use portion for use by both said clinician and said patient, and a follow-up portion for use by said clinician;
said diagnostic portion of said interview instrument including symptom, diagnostic and assessment information for a selected disorder, said joint-use portion and said follow-up portion each including a list of symptoms of said selected disorder;
said patient-use portion of said interview instrument including educational information about said disorder;
b. said clinician reviewing said diagnostic and assessment information, interviewing said patient, identifying and recording patient symptoms of said disorder on said joint-use portion of said interview instrument by reference to said list of symptoms and an environment in which each of the identified symptoms occurs to create a record of said patient symptoms;
said patient reviewing said joint-use portion and recording revised identified symptoms or environments on said joint-use portion and/or recording additional symptoms on said joint use portion;
and said clinician identifying target symptoms for treatment;
c. said patient reviewing said educational information on said patient-use portion of said interview instrument and reviewing said recorded symptoms;
and
d. said clinician again interviewing said patient, said patient reporting changes in symptoms of said patient, and said clinician recording said changes in symptoms of said patient on said follow-up portion of said interview instrument by reference to said list of symptoms on said follow-up portion for documenting effects of said treatment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/093,198Filed 7 Mar 2002
Published: US 2003/0171659 A111 Sep 2003
Granted: 7 Mar 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

A61B 5/0002
Measuring for diagnostic purposes ; Identification of persons: remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals…
A61B 5/4824
Other medical applications: touch or pain perception evaluation
G16H 10/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic…
G16H 20/70
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…