Inventors:
Mitchell Karl - Boca Raton FL, US
International Classification:
A61K 9/00, B65D 83/04
Abstract:
The invention relates to the development of a simple and inexpensive oral delivery system for customized pharmaceutical formulations for treating patients having conditions such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and heart disease. The system includes a) a plurality of prepackaged pharmaceutical formulations containing at least two pharmacologically active ingredients in periodic (e.g., daily, twice-daily, three times a day, four times a day) dosage amounts for treating a plurality of patients having differing characteristics and particular conditions to be treated, each formulation differing in pharmacologically active ingredients and/or dosage amounts from each other, and b) a chart listing the plurality of formulations for assisting a physician in deciding which formulation to administer to a patient suffering from a particular condition based on the patient's characteristics. A customized pharmaceutical formulation that is suitable for a patient having a particular condition to be treated is easily selected by the physician from a paper or electronic chart listing a plurality of different pharmaceutical formulations and correlating the different formulations to different patient characteristics that should be considered before administering a pharmaceutical formulation to the patient.