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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2004
Mark Kantrowitz, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Mark Kantrowitz, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
MK Consulting, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for determining an optimized surveillance schedule of follow-up diagnostic tests and doctor visits considers the tradeoff between timely detection of relapse and the cost of the diagnostic procedures. Determining subsequent testing dates for detection of a disease includes the steps of: a.) choosing a surveillance schedule, wherein the surveillance schedule includes a plurality of time segments for which a corresponding test is scheduled, wherein the first surveillance schedule has associated therewith a plurality of probabilities representing the probabilities that relapse will be detected in the corresponding plurality of time segments of the surveillance schedule; b.) determining a solution for an equation and c.) delaying each subsequent testing date until the cost per detected relapse is below a probability threshold of C/T.