Maintenance method for medication instructions

Abstract

To solve the problem that efficiency improvement is hindered by the fact that, although changes to a drug package insert associated with updating of the drug package insert can be mechanically handled by a system, it requires human effort of pharmacists to determine whether or not content of the update involves pharmaceutical implications.SOLUTION: A mechanism is provided, involving mechanically extracting sentence differences, having a pharmacist visually making pharmaceutical determinations to extract and accumulate residual sentences from a result of the determinations, and utilizing the residual sentences for the next mechanical exaction of sentence differences. Also, provided is a method of determining sentence differences, involving extracting n characters from an old sentence and searching for the same in a new sentence in order to extract differences.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present invention relates to the provision of pharmaceutical information by pharmacists to patients. [Background technology]

[0002] When a pharmacist gives medication instructions to a patient about a drug prescribed by a doctor, it is useful to prepare simplified information about points to note about the drug so that the pharmacist does not miss any information that the pharmacist needs to convey to the patient. Hereafter, this simplified information will be called the medication instruction text database.

[0003] The medication instruction text database must be updated every time the drug package insert is revised. Conventionally, pharmacists rely on visual inspection to determine whether the medication instruction text database should be revised.

[0004] Drug package inserts are revised on a daily basis for each drug. The wording may change, and side effects and precautions may be added. The decision as to whether or not to revise the medication instruction text database must be made by a pharmacist using their pharmaceutical knowledge.

[0005] Information on revisions to drug package inserts is available monthly, and unchanged package inserts can be found by mechanically comparing the previous month's package insert text with the current month's text. However, pharmacists must rely on their visual judgment to determine whether the wording of the text has changed, new pharmaceutical information has been added, or the text has been deleted. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0006] If it were possible to mechanically determine whether the wording of a sentence has changed, new pharmaceutical information has been added, or whether information has been deleted, it would reduce the workload of pharmacists.

[0007] The present invention is a system that can announce only the changes in pharmaceutical information by mechanical processing as much as possible in order to reduce the conventional human labor.

[0008] The goal is to create a system that will extract differences in the enclosed text, then accumulate the results of the pharmacist's judgments, and use the accumulated information to make the next judgment. [Means for solving the problem]

[0009] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention mechanically extracts the changes in the package insert, and then the pharmacist decides whether to add the changes to the medication instruction text database, and stores the changes in the discarded package insert separately. The stored text is called the discarded text database.

[0010] When the changes in the attached document are mechanically extracted, the changes are matched with the discarded document database, and if they match, it is determined that the attached document has not been changed.

[0011] The above-mentioned means for solving the problem reduces the number of times that pharmacists must visually check for changes in package inserts, thereby reducing the amount of work required.

[0012] The method for mechanically extracting the changes in the attached document does not just match the entire sentence, but also separates a certain number of characters from the beginning and searches to see if the separated sentence exists anywhere in the document being compared, thereby determining whether the document has been changed. Effect of the Invention

[0013] As described above, the discarded document database accumulated by the present invention is, so to speak, an accumulation of knowledge for the entire system, and results in the accumulation of pharmaceutical judgment by pharmacists.

[0014] A unique feature of this system is that the difference between documents accumulates the pharmacist's judgment as to whether they can be discarded. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0015] [Figure 1] Conceptual diagram of the present invention

Claims

1. When a pharmacist gives medication instructions to a patient about a drug prescribed by a doctor, it is useful to prepare simplified information on points to be aware of regarding that drug so that the pharmacist does not miss any information that should be conveyed to the patient. The simplified information is taken from the drug's package insert, but the content must be updated when the package insert is updated. In order to find areas where the package insert needs to be updated, the system accumulates differences in the text and also accumulates the results of human judgment, adding a learning function to the system, enabling the system to make highly accurate update decisions and reducing the work of maintaining data.

2. This system prepares simplified information for medication instructions, judges the knowledge level of the patient receiving the instructions, and dynamically changes the wording of the medication instructions.

3. This is a simplified information format for medication instructions that adds information on the pharmaceutical classification of the instructions for each drug and the classification of the method of providing instructions.

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