Appropriateness of a medication therapy regimen

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored in a memory for implementing a method of determining the appropriateness of a medication and intervention, the computer executable instructions comprising:

• receiving medication data relating to a medication for each of a plurality of persons, wherein the medication for each person comprises at least part of an actual medical treatment received by the person to treat a chronic medical condition;
• receiving treatment guidelines data relating to one or more treatment guidelines for treating the chronic medical condition for each of the plurality of persons;
• and evaluating the medication data and the treatment guidelines data to identify one or more persons within the plurality of persons where the medication for each of the identified persons does not match with the treatment guidelines for the identified persons;
• for each of the identified persons, determining a level of compliance between the actual medical treatment being received by the identified person and the one or more treatment guidelines, wherein the level of compliance is representative of the appropriateness of the medication treatment being received by the identified person for the chronic medical condition;
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• identifying an adverse health outcome for each identified person and determining a level of risk of the adverse health outcome associated with continuing the identified person's actual medical treatment when the medication treatment does not comply with the one or more treatment guidelines;
• evaluating a likelihood of each identified health adverse health outcome occurring and the level of risk of each identified adverse health outcome to determine an intervention severity index for each identified person, wherein the intervention severity index is representative of the urgency involved in intervening in the medical treatment of the person;
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• intervening in the medical treatment of the person in accordance with the intervention severity index, wherein an identified adverse health outcome having an intervention severity index greater than a predetermined threshold receives a different type of intervention than an identified adverse health outcome having an intervention severity index less than the predetermined threshold.