Patient diary
A Patient Diary is a tool used during a clinical trial or a disease treatment to assess the patient's condition (e.g. symptom severity, quality of life) or to measure treatment compliance. An Electronic Patient Diary registers the data in a storage device and allows for automatically monitoring the time the entry was made.
Frequent recording of symptoms using a diary helps to reduce recall bias. Electronic diaries ensure entries are made as scheduled, and not, for example, in a batch immediately before the clinic visit.
With the wide spread usage of mobile technologies, the Mobile Patient Diary system has become a part of electronic patient diaries, ensuring real time data capture with clean and consistent patient information, operating within a secure and compliant environment.
A Mobile Patient Diary is a mobile based patient reported outcome capturing system which guides the patients to fill their scheduled or episodic assessments/questionnaires as per the trial protocol, at source, using mobile phone devices and smart phones. In addition, certain mobile patient diary solutions allow treatment adherence features to ensure that the subject under trial is compliant to the trial protocol in terms of medication intake, site visits and other protocol requirements.
Patient diaries are also way to find out if a patient takes the medication according to the treatment schedule, which is an important problem during clinical trials and the treatment of degenerative diseases with relatively few symptoms.
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References
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