Method for selecting a clinical treatment plan tailored to patient defined health goals

摘要

The invention discloses a method by which the health care professional or patient may draw upon historical medical data concerning patients similarly situated in medical condition, to assist him/her in deciding on a clinical intervention procedure to select. This method is specifically tailored to the patient, as data is provided and evaluated from only similarly situated patients, and provides an expectation of potential outcome of the patient should one or the other of the options be selected. The invention further provides a database that may be used in order to provide this comparison based evaluation method. A computer based software system is further disclosed that implements the method. The invention more speiocifically provides a method by which a post-coronary event patient may make an informed decision of which post-coronary revascularization procedure to undergo in the future management of his disease. This method employs the patient's health status date (symptoms, function and quality of life), and provides projections of the patient's expected survival, risk, and 1-year health status outcome from the selection of revascularization procedure, such as Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform operations comprising:
accessing a database to retrieve information regarding a first individual patient; identifying a disease state of the first individual patient using information accessed from the database; assessing health status parameters of the first individual patient; identifying a projected health outcome corresponding to the first individual patient based upon a preference of the first individual patient and on a goal of the first individual patient; accessing the database to retrieve information regarding health status parameters from a population having similar demographics to the first individual patient to provide a library of projected health outcomes for a plurality of treatments for the disease state of the first individual patient; and at least partly based on the first individual patient's goal and preference, assisting the patient and or provider in selecting preferred outcomes from the library of projected health outcomes.