System for monitoring chemotherapy associated adverse drug reactions

摘要

A system adapted to monitor adverse drug reactions in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy which comprises a patient-based data terminal 3 such as a mobile telephone adapted to provide for periodic entry by the patient of data on a plurality of predetermined adverse reactions. The data is processed for display to the patient and for transmission to a remove server 7. The data is also processed to generate red or amber alerts which may be displayed to the patient and sent by the server 7 to a pager 13 held by the healthcare professional. The server 7 processes the received data for display and review via a secure web page. Alerts may be of different levels of urgency with urgent alerts being sent immediately to the pager 13, but less urgent alerts being sent in batches at regular intervals.