Using Toxicity Level in Treatment Recommendations by Question Answering Systems

摘要

Mechanisms are provided for outputting a treatment recommendation for a medical malady. The mechanisms receive an input specifying a medical malady of a specified patient and determine one or more constituent agents of a potential treatment for the specified medical malady of the specified patient. The mechanisms retrieve a treatment toxicity profile corresponding to the medical malady. In addition, the mechanisms calculate a treatment toxicity score for the potential treatment based on a comparison of patient medical attributes of the specified patient to toxicity criteria associated with the one or more constituent agents identified in the treatment toxicity profile. The mechanisms then output a treatment recommendation based on the treatment toxicity score.

主权项

1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for outputting a treatment recommendation for a medical malady, the method comprising:
receiving, by the data processing system, an input specifying a medical malady of a specified patient; determining, by the data processing system, one or more constituent agents of a potential treatment for the specified medical malady of the specified patient; retrieving, by the data processing system, a treatment toxicity profile corresponding to the medical malady; calculating, by the data processing system, a treatment toxicity score for the potential treatment based on a comparison of patient medical attributes of the specified patient to toxicity criteria associated with the one or more constituent agents identified in the treatment toxicity profile; and outputting, by the data processing system, a treatment recommendation based on the treatment toxicity score.