JP2002351983A - Apparatus and program for supporting medicine-taking guidance - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for supporting medicine-taking guidance and a program for the apparatus capable of reducing the burdens on pharmacists and patients by devising a questionnaire automatically only in case of necessity. SOLUTION: An I/C card 7 of a patient is inserted in an I/C card reader/ writer, and then it is determined based on the information about given medicines stored in the I/C card 7 whether the given medicines include a medicine which was prepared in past (steps S1, S2 and S3). When the given medicines include a medicine prepared in past, it is determined whether the elapsed time after the last preparation date of the medicine is less than a predetermined value Th (steps S3 and S4). When the elapsed time after the last preparation date of the medicine is less than a predetermined value Th, the contents of medical treatment corresponding to the detail and prescription issue date of the medicine prepared on the last preparation date are read, and a questionnaire to the patient is devised based on the contents (steps S4, S5, S6, and S7).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method in which a pharmacist administers a drug to a patient by using drug information such as side effects, effects, effects, and precautions of a drug issued by a pharmacy, and prescription information issued by a hospital. The present invention relates to a medication guidance support device and a medication guidance support program for providing guidance, and in particular, to creation of a questionnaire for investigating a patient's physical condition in medication guidance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to administer a drug to a patient, a prescription prepared by a doctor is generally delivered to a pharmacy in a hospital, and dispensing work is performed in the pharmacy in the hospital based on the prescription. . However, in recent years, the division of medicine has been rapidly promoted for the purpose of sophistication of medical treatment, segmentation of specialty, and reduction of phytotoxicity, and pharmacists have been dedicated to pharmacist and medication work. On the other hand, due to the revision of the Pharmacist Law, 20
When a pharmacist administers a drug to a patient from April 2000, the patient will be informed of the drug, and the patient's medication status, changes in physical condition during medication, concomitant medication information, food and drink intake status, etc. It is becoming more important to provide guidance based on the information. In addition, it is required that the patient's physical condition and the like be grasped and the patient information is fed back to a prescribing physician to contribute to an appropriate medical practice.

[0003] In order to provide a kind and appropriate medication instruction in this manner, a pharmacist needs to grasp the situation of the patient's medication. For this purpose, a pharmacist generally verbally interviews the patient, A method is used in which a questionnaire is given to a patient to be filled out. For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-27637 discloses a counseling system in which a pharmacist inputs a response to a patient to a computer, thereby automatically creating the contents of an instruction message for instructing the patient to take medication and counseling. Have been. Also, JP-A-8-272882 discloses that
Based on patient information (allergy, smoking amount, alcohol consumption, etc.) and prescription drugs, the system automatically creates questions to ask the patient about side effects of taking the drug for reference when the pharmacist gives instructions on taking the drug. A medication instruction support system to be printed out is disclosed.

[0004]

However, since a patient who receives medication for the first time does not have information on medication in the past, there is no need to prepare a questionnaire for investigating changes in physical condition due to medication. For this reason, conventionally, a pharmacist has searched for and confirmed the past prescription of the patient who has received the medication in the pharmacy in the past, or asked the patient directly. Such an operation is very time-consuming for the pharmacist, and the patient also has to wait for the dispensing operation in the pharmacy, in addition to the burden of moving from the hospital to the pharmacy. In addition, while the pharmacist is searching for past medications, patients have to wait longer at the pharmacy and have to ask more questions when they are not needed, which puts an additional burden on them. Had become something.

The present invention has been proposed in order to eliminate the above problems, and a medication instruction that can reduce the burden on pharmacists and patients by automatically creating a questionnaire only when necessary. It is an object of the present invention to provide a support device and a medication instruction support program used for such a device.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a medicine taking guidance support apparatus according to the present invention provides a medicine taking guidance support for preparing a questionnaire for investigating a physical condition of a patient as a part of a medicine taking guidance to the patient. A device, a medication history acquisition means for acquiring information on a medication history of a patient,
A search unit that searches for information on the acquired medication history to determine whether or not there is a medication history for a specific patient, and prohibits creation of a questionnaire for the patient when it is determined that there is no medication history. And a prohibition means for performing the operation.

With this configuration, the pharmacist can check the presence or absence of the medication history of the patient who receives medication at the pharmacy by checking the patient's past prescriptions or checking the patient's past prescriptions without having to take any trouble. Only questionnaires can be created. Further, the medication guidance support device according to the present invention is characterized in that the determination means prohibits the creation of a questionnaire irrespective of the presence or absence of a medication history when a predetermined period has elapsed since the last medication. And

[0008] If a long time has elapsed since the last dose, it is considered that the patient has forgotten changes in physical condition due to the dose, and it will not be helpful for future drug guidance. Also, unnecessary questionnaires can be prevented from being created. Furthermore, the medication instruction support device according to the present invention includes a prescription information acquisition unit that acquires information on a patient's prescription, and a medication information creation unit that creates medication information such as side effects of a drug based on the acquired information on the prescription. And a presenting means for presenting only the medicine information to the patient when the determining means determines that there is no medication history.

[0009] Thus, even when it is not necessary to prepare a questionnaire, appropriate medication instruction can be performed by reliably presenting only drug information to a patient. If the prescription information and the medication history are stored in the same data resource, the prescription information acquisition means can also serve as the medication history acquisition means. For example, when the same data resource is an IC card, the IC card reader doubles as a prescription information acquisition unit and a medication history acquisition unit.

Here, the presenting means is a printing apparatus, and when presenting both the questionnaire and the medicine information, the presenting means may be printed out on different papers. The drug information is for the patient to confirm when taking the drug, but since the questionnaire is to be submitted to the pharmacist after the patient answers, this allows the patient to separate only the questionnaire part from the drug information sheet There is no need to submit, which is convenient.

[0011] Further, a medication instruction support program according to the present invention is a program for causing a computer to execute a process of creating a questionnaire for investigating a physical condition of a patient, the medication history acquiring information on the medication history of the patient. Acquisition processing, searching for information on the acquired medication history, determining processing to determine whether there is a medication history for a specific patient, and creating a questionnaire for the patient only when it is determined that there is a medication history And causing the computer to execute a questionnaire creation process.

Thus, the computer can be operated as a prison guidance support apparatus that does not require a pharmacist or a patient to determine whether or not to create a questionnaire.

[0013]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a medication support system according to the present invention. First, a dispensing pharmacy system using a medication instruction support device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be briefly described.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the overall configuration of a dispensing pharmacy system. As shown in the figure, this dispensing pharmacy system includes terminal devices arranged in a hospital 1 and pharmacies 2a, 2b, 2c, and a hospital DB (database) 3a.
, A pharmacy DB 3b and a medicine information DB 3c connected via the external network 4. The hospital 1 is provided with a terminal device 5 for an office and a terminal device 6 for a patient. The terminal device 5 for the office has an IC owned by the patient.
IC that can read and write data from card 7
A card R / W (reader / writer) 5a, a control unit 5b connected to the IC card R / W 5a, and a printer 5c such as a laser printer are provided.

[0015] A clerk or the like controls prescription information (this prescription information includes not only the prescription of the drug but also the medical treatment of the patient) via a keyboard or the like directly by the doctor or based on a medical chart prepared by the doctor. When input to the section 5b, the prescription information is written to the IC card 7 via the IC card R / W 5a. The terminal device 6 for the patient is installed in a place where the patient can freely use, such as a waiting room or an accounting room in the hospital, and is used for the patient to check the prescription information stored in the IC card 7. ,
IC card read / search device 6a, display unit 6b, control unit 6
c and a printer 6d such as a laser printer.

When the patient inserts his / her own IC card 7 into the IC card reading / searching device 6a and performs a predetermined operation, the I
The C card reading / searching device 6a reads necessary information (medical treatment contents, medical treatment history, medication information, medical expenses taken so far) from the IC card 7, and displays them on the display unit 6b, or the printer 6d. It can be printed out.

The terminal devices 5 and 6 in the hospital 1 are:
The pharmacy DB 3b and the pharmacy 2a via the external network 4
By communicating with the terminal devices 11a, 11b, and 11c of 2b and 2c, it is possible to obtain and display information on a pharmacy where the prescription can be dispensed and the congestion status of the pharmacy. The terminal devices 11a, 11b and 11c arranged in each of the pharmacies 2a, 2b and 2c are connected to the patient's IC.
Based on the information on the card 7, drug information including information on the contents of prescriptions and side effects of medicines, contents of receipts,
And questions to the patient regarding changes in physical condition due to medication (hereinafter referred to as "questionnaire"), etc.
An IC card R / W 8a, 8b, 8c for reading information from the IC card 7 owned by the patient and writing necessary information, and is programmed to operate as a medication instruction support device for printing out. It includes units 9a, 9b, 9c and printers 10a, 10b, 10c such as laser printers.

The hospital DB 3a stores functions (equipment, etc.) and location and examination time of each hospital, the pharmacy DB 3b stores stock drugs and locations of each pharmacy, and the drug information DB 3c stores images, components and effects of prescription drugs. , Side effects, precautions, etc., are stored, respectively, and the terminal devices 5 and 6 on the hospital side and the terminal device 11 on the pharmacy side via the external network 4.
a, 11b, 11c and the like.

FIG. 2 shows a table of data stored in the IC card 7 of the patient. As shown in the drawing, the table stores the addresses of the address column 12, the storage items of the storage item column 13, and the storage data of the storage data column 14 in association with each other. The storage item is a classification name of the stored data, and includes patient basic information, emergency information, medical information 13a, and the like. The basic information includes a name, an address, a date of birth, and the like. Emergency information includes blood type, drug allergy and the like. The medical information 13a is
It consists of medical treatment history 14a, medical treatment contents 14b, pharmacy information 14c, and medication information 14d. Here, in the medical treatment history 14a and the medical treatment contents 14b, information as to what kind of medical treatment was taken at which hospital is stored. In addition, as shown in FIG. 4A, the pharmacy information 14c stores in detail the dispensing date, the prescription issuing date, and the prescription issuing hospital, in addition to the past dispensing pharmacy names. By referring to this table, when and where the prescription was issued, when the dispensing,
You can recognize where it took place.

As shown in FIG. 4B, the medication information 14d stores a prescription issuance date, a dispensing date, and a history of medication details. Here, the type of drug,
Stores the dose to be taken and the time of use.
By referring to this table, it is possible to confirm when dispensed, what kind of medicine, when and how much to take. Further, by confirming the prescription issuance date and the dispensing date, it is possible to recognize the presence or absence of a prescription that has not been dispensed and to recognize what kind of medication has been administered in the past (that is, medication history).

Next, the configuration of the control section 9a will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows the terminal device 11a of the pharmacy 2a.
3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit 9a in FIG. As shown in the figure, the control unit 9a includes a CPU 90, a communication unit 9
1. Question creation unit 92, medicine information editing unit 93, clock 94,
It comprises a patient DB 95, a RAM 96, a ROM 97 and the like.

When the communication section 91 receives data transmitted from the drug information DB 3c or the device terminals 5 and 6 of the hospital 1 via the external network 4, the communication section 91 transmits the data to the CPU 90.
Send to Further, data and information sent from the CPU 90 to the prescribing physician and the like are transmitted to the hospital-side device terminals 5 and 6 via the communication unit 91. Question creator 9
2 creates a questionnaire for the patient based on the information of the IC card 7. That is, based on the information of the IC card 7 read via the IC card R / W 8a, the question creating unit 92 creates the data of the medical treatment contents 14b and the medication information 14d and the result data of the previously created questionnaire from the patient DB 95 (questionnaire). Create a new questionnaire for the patient based on the contents of the questionnaire and the answer to the questionnaire. The contents of the questionnaire creation are publicly known, and are disclosed in JP-A-8-272882 and JP-A-2000-2765.
Since it is described in detail in Japanese Patent Publication No. 37 and the like, further description is omitted.

The patient DB 95 stores information such as a patient's name and allergies, questionnaire result data, and the like. The drug information editing unit 93 edits drug information describing the name of the prescription drug, a photograph of the appearance, the number of drinks, the usage, the efficacy and side effects of the drug, notes, and the like. That is, the medicine information editing unit 93 reads the prescription medicine image and component necessary from the medicine information DB 3c based on the data of the unprescribed medicine details in the medicine information in the IC card 7 read via the IC card R / W 8a. And data such as efficacy, side effects, precautions, etc., and create drug information. The specific editing contents of this medicine information are described in
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-91700 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-283419.

The ROM 97 stores a control program for creating the questionnaire and editing the medicine information. Further, the RAM 96 temporarily stores various control variables and flags for executing the control program. The clock 94 indicates the current date and time. The CPU 90 refers to the clock 94 and writes the date and time of dispensing or issuing a prescription to the IC card 7 or the like.

The CPU 90 receives information of the IC card 7 via the IC card R / W 8a,
The required program is read out from the CPU 7 to control the question creating unit 92, the medicine information editing unit 93, and the like. Also, CPU
90 sends the created print data such as the questionnaire and the medicine information to the laser printer 10a and prints out the data.

The control units 9b of the other pharmacies 2b, 2c
9c has the same configuration as the control unit 9a. Next, IC
The control operation of the control unit 9a when the terminal device 11a creates a questionnaire or medicine information based on the data in the card 7 will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

First, in step S1 of FIG.
U90 determines whether the IC card 7 has been inserted into the IC card R / W 8a. IC card 7 is IC card R
/ W8a (Y in step S1), the CPU
90 reads out the data of the medication information 14d in the IC card 7 via the IC card R / W 8a, and determines whether or not there is a medication that has been dispensed in the past (steps S2 and S2).
3). The CPU 90 determines whether or not there is any medication that has been dispensed in the past, that is, whether or not there is a medication history by searching the dispensing date data stored in the medication information 14d of the IC card 7.

Next, if there are medications that have been dispensed in the past,
The CPU 90 calculates the elapsed time from the previous dispensing date to the time when the IC card 7 is inserted this time with reference to the clock 94, and determines whether or not the elapsed time is smaller than a predetermined value Th (step). S4). If the elapsed time from the previous dispensing date is smaller than the predetermined value Th (Y in step S4), the CPU 90 reads out the previously dispensed medication details from the medication information 14d, and issues the previously dispensed prescription from the medical treatment content 14b. The medical treatment contents corresponding to the day are read (steps S5 and S6). Then, the CPU 90 causes the question creator 92 to create the contents of the questionnaire to the patient based on the read medicine details and the read medical treatment contents (step S7). For example, patients who have some of the prescribed medications that have strong side effects may be particularly susceptible to those medications, such as "Did you become more dizzy than before taking them?" If you are dizzy, how many hours have passed since you took it? "

At this time, if there is data stored in the patient DB 95 or result data of a previously issued questionnaire (contents of the questionnaire and answers to the questionnaire), the data is also referred to and a questionnaire is created. A questionnaire with more appropriate contents can be provided to the patient. For example, if the same drug has been administered several times in the past, the content of the question may be changed according to the number of times, or in some cases, the question about the drug may be omitted.

In step S3, if there is no medication that has been dispensed in the past, there is no point in creating a questionnaire for asking for the side effects of taking the drug.
And skips to step S8. In step S4, if the elapsed time from the previous dispensing date exceeds the predetermined value Th, an accurate answer is often not obtained even if a questionnaire is created.
Steps S5 to S7 are skipped, and the process proceeds to step S8 without creating a questionnaire.

In such a case, the questionnaire is not created because the patient's memory fades with the lapse of a predetermined period of time, and even if a question is asked based on the previously prescribed medication, the answer is used as a reference for future medication guidance. It is because it seems that it does not become. As the predetermined value Th, a predetermined value is set, and in the present embodiment, “2 months” is a fixed value R
It is stored in the OM 97 in advance. However, memory varies depending on the age of the patient (adults, children, etc.), and it may be desirable to ask questions about drugs with significant side effects even after a long period of time. It may be programmed so that the predetermined value Th value can be changed according to the type.

Next, the CPU 90 refers to the medication information 14d and determines whether or not there is medication detail of an unprescribed (prescription not dispensed) (step S8). This judgment is
This can be easily performed by searching the table of the medication information 14d to see if there is any prescription issued but no dispensing date recorded. If there is unprescribed medication details, the information of the unprescribed medication details is read out (step S9), and the process proceeds to step S10 in FIG. 6, where the medicine information editing unit 93 performs the process based on the read out medication details. It reads out data such as prescription drug images, ingredients, efficacy effects, side effects, and precautions from the drug information DB 3c, and provides information on the prescription drug name, appearance photo, number of drinks, usage, drug efficacy effects and side effects, and precautions. Edit the described drug information. Thereafter, the CPU 90 sets the IC card R
The current date is written to the IC card 7 via the / W8a as the dispensing date, and the content of the drug information is stored in the printer 1
0a (steps S11 and S11).
12).

Then, in step S13, the CPU
At 90, it is determined whether the contents of the questionnaire have been created. Here, when the content of the questionnaire is created in step S7, a flag indicating that fact is set in the RAM 96, and the CPU 90 refers to the state of the flag to determine whether the content of the questionnaire has been created. Is determined. If the contents of the questionnaire have been created, the CPU 90 sends it to the printer 10a.
The control information is printed out on a sheet other than the above-mentioned medicine information, and if not created, this control operation is ended without printing out (steps S13 and S14).

FIGS. 7A and 7B are diagrams showing examples of a printed medicine information sheet and a questionnaire sheet.
As shown in FIG. 7A, the medicine information sheet contains the name of the medicine,
The layout has been edited in an easy-to-understand manner for the appearance photo, number of drinks, usage, efficacy and side effects of the drug, and notes. Also, as shown in FIG. 7 (b), the questionnaire sheet is prepared with appropriate questions based on the medicine prescribed last time.

Incidentally, two paper cassettes are provided in the laser printer to store medicine information sheets and questionnaire sheets having different colors or paper qualities from each other, and to output the medicine information and the questionnaire. If the printout is performed by switching the paper cassette, the distinction between the two papers becomes clear, and the patient does not get the wrong paper.

On the other hand, if there is no unprescribed medication details in step S8, there is no need to dispense this time, so no drug information is required, and steps S9 to S12 are skipped and the process proceeds to step S13, where the contents of the questionnaire are returned. The questionnaire is printed out (step S14), or the control operation is terminated without printing out, according to the presence or absence of the creation of the questionnaire.

As described above, according to the medication guidance support apparatus according to the present embodiment, in creating a questionnaire to be referred to when a pharmacist provides medication guidance, the medication history data of the IC card is referred to. In addition, a questionnaire can be created by automatically judging patients who need a questionnaire and those who do not, and there is no need for a pharmacist to check past prescriptions or confirm the patient himself. In addition, for patients who receive medication for the first time, a questionnaire is not necessary, but if a predetermined period has elapsed since the previous medication, it will not be helpful for future medication guidance, so it is also necessary for such patients. Do not create surveys. This can reduce waste of print paper and can immediately dispense a patient who does not need a questionnaire, thereby reducing waiting time.

Further, since the questionnaire and the medicine information are printed out on different sheets, the patient can fill out the questionnaire on the spot or bring the questionnaire back and submit it next time. As a result, it is possible to reduce the time spent at the pharmacy for patients who need a questionnaire. Also for pharmacists,
As we can easily and reliably collect questionnaire forms,
This can be very useful for future medication instruction.

Further, in the present embodiment, for example, since the user was worried about a change in physical condition due to the medicine being taken,
Drug information is not created for patients who come to the pharmacy to consult to that effect, and only a questionnaire for the drug is created. Therefore, if the pharmacist asks the patient to fill out a questionnaire on the spot before asking the patient about the condition and the cause, the pharmacist can easily grasp the patient's physical condition and the like from the questionnaire.

<Modifications> Although the medication taking support apparatus according to the present invention has been described based on the embodiments, the contents of the present invention are not limited to the above embodiments. Such a modified example as described above can be implemented. (1) In the above-described embodiment, the questionnaire is created for the medicine administered last time. For example, the administration period of the medicine previously dispensed overlaps the administration period of the medicine dispensed last time. If it is considered that the patient is taking the drug in combination, a questionnaire may be created for all the drugs. This makes it possible to provide patients who receive prescriptions at a plurality of hospitals with a detailed questionnaire on side effects that can occur due to interaction with other drugs.

(2) In the above embodiment, after the patient comes to the pharmacy and inserts the IC card 7 into the IC card R / W 8a, the medicine information (medication history and prescription of the prescription) stored in the IC card 7 is stored. Information), and a questionnaire sheet or a medicine information sheet is created based on this information. However, the means for acquiring patient medication information is not limited to such a case. For example, the patient's medication information stored in a storage device such as the terminal device 5 on the hospital side may be acquired via the external network 4.

Further, the information of the prescription issued by the doctor is transmitted from the hospital 1 to the pharmacy designated by the patient through the FA through the communication line.
X, or when the patient hands over a paper with prescription information directly to the pharmacist,
The person in charge may input the information to the terminal device on the pharmacy side and accumulate the medication history for each patient in the internal patient DB. By acquiring the medication history data stored in the patient DB, it is possible to create a questionnaire based on medication and drug information for each patient.

When the medication history and the prescription information are provided by different data resources, different acquisition means are provided. For example, when the prescription information is sent from the hospital via an external network, the means for acquiring the prescription information is the communication unit 91 in FIG. 3, and the medication history data is stored in the IC card. In such a case, the IC card reader serves as an acquisition unit for the medication history.

(3) In the above-described embodiment, the contents are presented to the patient by printing out the medicine information and the questionnaire on a predetermined sheet. However, the presenting means is not limited to this. In particular, for a questionnaire or the like, the content of the questionnaire can be displayed on a display device having an input unit such as a transparent touch panel on the front of the screen, and the patient can input an answer via the touch panel. Further, the medicine information and the contents of the questionnaire may be transmitted via the Internet according to the selection of the patient, and the patient may confirm the contents on the display of his / her own terminal.

[0045]

As described above, according to the medicine taking guidance support device of the present invention, the medicine taking guidance support device for preparing a questionnaire for examining the physical condition of a patient as part of the medicine taking guidance for the patient is provided. History Acquisition Means Information on the medication history of the patient is acquired, and the information on the medication history is searched by the determination means to determine whether or not there is a medication history for the specific patient. Therefore, when it is determined that there is no medication history, creation of a questionnaire for the patient is prohibited.

Thus, in order to confirm whether a questionnaire is necessary for a patient who receives medication at a pharmacy, a pharmacist looks at information indicated on the patient's past prescription, or asks the patient directly. This eliminates the need for any trouble, and it is possible to avoid creating a questionnaire for patients who have no medication history. As a result, the pharmacist can concentrate on the dispensing operation, reduce unnecessary time, and reduce waiting time at the pharmacy of the patient. In addition, the burden of unnecessary questions about the medication history every time is eliminated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a dispensing pharmacy system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a table of data stored in an IC card according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a control unit in a terminal device installed on the pharmacy side in the dispensing pharmacy system.

FIG. 4 is a table showing data contents of pharmacy information and medication information stored in the IC card.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a control operation at the time of creating a questionnaire and medicine information in a control unit of a terminal device installed on the pharmacy side.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a continuation of the flowchart of the control operation of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a medicine information sheet and a questionnaire sheet created in the medication instruction support device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Hospital 2a-2c Pharmacy 4 External network 5a, 8a-8c IC card R / W 7 IC card 9a-9c Control part 10a-10c Printer 11a-11c Terminal device (medication guidance support device) 14a Medical treatment history 14b Medical treatment contents 14c Pharmacy Information 14d Medication information 90 CPU 91 Communication unit 92 Question creation unit 93 Drug information editing unit 94 Clock 95 Patient DB

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Takashi Hamada, Inventor Minorta Co., Ltd. 2-3-1-13 Azuchicho, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka (72) Inventor Daisetsu Toyama Azuchi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Osaka International Building Minolta Co., Ltd.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A medication instruction support device for preparing a questionnaire for investigating a physical condition of a patient as a part of medication instruction for a patient, a medication history acquisition means for acquiring information on a medication history of the patient, Means for retrieving information on a given medication history and determining whether there is a medication history for a specific patient, and prohibiting the creation of a questionnaire for the patient if it is determined that there is no medication history Means for taking medication guidance. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit prohibits the creation of a questionnaire regardless of the presence or absence of a medication history when a predetermined period has elapsed since the last medication. Medication support equipment. A prescription information acquisition unit for acquiring information on a patient's prescription; a medication information creation unit for creating medication information such as side effects of a drug based on the acquired prescription information; The medicine taking guidance support device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: a presenting unit that presents only the medicine information to a patient when it is determined that there is no medicine information. 4. The presenting means is a printing device, and when presenting both a questionnaire and medicine information,
4. The medication instructing support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the apparatus prints out on different papers. 5. A program for causing a computer to execute a process of creating a questionnaire for investigating a physical condition of a patient, a medication history acquisition process of acquiring information on a medication history of the patient, and the acquired medication history. And causing the computer to execute a determination process of determining whether there is a medication history for a specific patient and a questionnaire creation process of creating a questionnaire for the patient only when it is determined that there is a medication history. A medication instruction support program characterized by the following: