摘要 |
An apparatus for monitoring the medical condition of a patient (2), including a monitoring device (3) which during use monitors one or more clinical features of the patient: a predictive instrument (3) arranged to receive output from the monitoring device and programmed to compute a probability of a medical outcome or diagnosis based on the features, the predictive instrument further programmed to compute the probability by executing an algorithm which models the medical outcome; and an interface (4) through which a user enters information characterizing the patient, wherein the predictive instrument is further programmed to request the algorithm from a remote location (12). |