Publication: Desarrollo e implementación de una herramienta de visualización y seguimiento de pacientes en estudio clínico
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2019
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Los estudios clínicos mejoran la calidad de vida de los pacientes enfermos en la búsqueda de tratamientos clínicos para paliar las enfermedades. En la actualidad se realizan multitud de ensayos clínicos. La realización de éstos supone un gran coste y es necesario de buenas herramientas para llevar a cabo un seguimiento minucioso de los pacientes. Con la evolución de la tecnología lo sensato sería pensar que los estudios médicos han avanzado con ella. Pero a menudo nos encontramos con que muchos estudios clínicos no se han adaptado a las nuevas tecnologías o se han quedado a medio camino. Para ayudar con el seguimiento de los ensayos clínicos, en el presente trabajo se propone una arquitectura escalable, mantenible y de fácil adaptación para desarrollar e implementar aplicaciones móviles sin mucho esfuerzo.
Para demostrar la utilidad de la arquitectura propuesta se muestra un caso de uso centrado en el estudio clínico llevado a cabo por el proyecto BrainGuard. En dicho estudio el personal médico realiza el seguimiento de los pacientes a través del personal técnico, los cuales mantienen una base de datos con la información del estudio.
Mediante la herramienta desarrollada se trata de mejorar el estudio proporcionando los instrumentos necesarios para que el proceso sea más dinámico y fluido. Además, la herramienta conecta los resultados de los pacientes con los responsables implicados en el proyecto en tiempo real, permitiendo realizar análisis más rápidos. Esto dota a los estudios clínicos de la capacidad de adaptarse a las necesidades de los pacientes antes de que sea demasiado tarde y se tenga que descartar a los pacientes.
El presente trabajo pretende ser una referencia de arquitectura para el desarrollo de futuras herramientas enfocadas a otros estudios clínicos de otras enfermedades, pues la herramienta desarrollada es de código libre y se aporta toda la información para adaptarla sin que suponga un gran esfuerzo para los desarrolladores.
Clinical studies improve the quality of life of sick patients, improving and discovering clinical treatments to alleviate diseases. At present, many clinical trials are carried out. The realization of these involves a great cost and it is necessary to have good tools to carry out an exhaustive monitoring of patients. With the evolution of technology, it would be prudent to think that medical studies have advanced with it. But we often find that many clinical studies have not been adapted to new technologies or have been halved. To help with the monitoring of clinical trials, this document proposes a scalable, easy to maintain and easily adaptable architecture to develop and implement mobile applications without much effort. To demonstrate the utility of the architecture, a case of use centered on the clinical study carried out by the BrainGuard group is shown. In this study, the medical personnel follow up the patients through the technical personnel. Those who maintain a database with the information of the study. Through the tool developed, the study is improved by providing the necessary instruments to make the study more dynamic and fluid. In addition, the tool connects the results of patients with those responsible involved in the project in real time, which allows a faster analysis. This gives clinical trials the ability to adapt to the needs of patients before it is too late and patients should be discarded. The present work intends to be a reference of architecture for the development of future tools focused on other clinical studies of other diseases, because the developed tool is a free code and all the information is provided to adapt it without supposing a great effort for the developers.
Clinical studies improve the quality of life of sick patients, improving and discovering clinical treatments to alleviate diseases. At present, many clinical trials are carried out. The realization of these involves a great cost and it is necessary to have good tools to carry out an exhaustive monitoring of patients. With the evolution of technology, it would be prudent to think that medical studies have advanced with it. But we often find that many clinical studies have not been adapted to new technologies or have been halved. To help with the monitoring of clinical trials, this document proposes a scalable, easy to maintain and easily adaptable architecture to develop and implement mobile applications without much effort. To demonstrate the utility of the architecture, a case of use centered on the clinical study carried out by the BrainGuard group is shown. In this study, the medical personnel follow up the patients through the technical personnel. Those who maintain a database with the information of the study. Through the tool developed, the study is improved by providing the necessary instruments to make the study more dynamic and fluid. In addition, the tool connects the results of patients with those responsible involved in the project in real time, which allows a faster analysis. This gives clinical trials the ability to adapt to the needs of patients before it is too late and patients should be discarded. The present work intends to be a reference of architecture for the development of future tools focused on other clinical studies of other diseases, because the developed tool is a free code and all the information is provided to adapt it without supposing a great effort for the developers.
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Trabajo de Fin de Máster, Universidad Complutense, Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática, Curso 2018/2019