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Update 3/31
Mar. 31, 2019—Our project will now involve looking back at old data to see if our methods will change dosing for metoprolol significantly. Our project will eventually lead to see if doing genetic tests and using their results to see if their dosing recommendations are better than current best practice dosing. Last time we were attempting to...
Update 2/2
Feb. 23, 2019—One of the challenges we have run into while preparing for our clinical trials has been gaining IRB approval to run the experiment. One big issue that our group had to tackle was the issue of privacy regarding the patients participating in the trial. We know that IRB would most likely refuse the proposal if...
Update 2/6
Feb. 6, 2019—Our project is to make a website to recommend drugs for post operative care for cardiac surgeries. This will be done by using pharmacognetic data to better prescribe these drugs, reducing the amount of time and money wasted on getting the dosing right. Our previous goals: Implement a separate column for alternative drugs in our...
Update 11/14
Nov. 14, 2018—1)This week I wanted to add password protection. I want this to protect patient data for when such data is added. I would also like to to finally add in the given dosage to the table. this will be based on the dosage selected from the pull down menus. This will allow us, when the...
Update 11/7
Nov. 7, 2018—Again, our overall goal is to create a website to aid doctors in prescribing 4 drugs (Wefern, Opiod, Zofran, and Metoprolol. 1) We next wish to create a second webpage for Werfern, this is the only drug not effected by the same gene). This is important as it will allow us to reduce the clutter...
Update 11/4
Nov. 2, 2018—Overall goal: Our overall goal is to create a pharmacogneetic (interaction of drugs and the genome) data base. This will be used in the OR (operating room) in order to prescribe the appropriate drug and dosages to the patient post surgery. 1)We next wanted to out put a table on suggestions. We figured a table...
Update 10/29
Oct. 29, 2018—Overall goal: Our overall goal is to create a pharmacogneetic (interaction of drugs and the genome) data base. This will be used in the OR (operating room) in order to prescribe the appropriate drug and dosages to the patient post surgery. 1) We wanted to add in some javascript to our code in order to...
Update 10/15
Oct. 15, 2018—Whats we’ve done: Talked to our advisor (Dr. Kertai) Started learning about pharmacogenetics Learned about html and javascript Ran sample scripts What we are doing Creating the website More learning More team meeting Future (near to far) Making the database itself Alternative for each medicine Maybe integrating with Epic’s app store