Altering patient care based on long term sdd

Abstract

Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods that relate to altering patient care and increasing the efficacy of medical diagnostics. A standard deviation of deltas (SDD) plot of analyte measurements can provide insights into the medical diagnostics. One or more SDD plots can be used to help diagnose a patient and alter a patient's care depending on the relation of the patient's own SDD plot characteristics relative to the one or more SDD plots. Any or all of the analysis can be automated, such as to reduce human interaction with process.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for altering patient care based on a standard deviation of deltas analysis, the method comprising:
 receiving a measurement value of an analyte of a sample, a patient identification indicating a patient from which the sample was taken, a laboratory analyzer identification indicating a laboratory analyzer used to generate the measurement value, a time at which the measurement value was generated, and an analyte identification indicating a type of analyte to which the measurement value corresponds;   identifying one or more demographics of the patient;   retrieving measurement values of the analyte corresponding to the same laboratory analyzer or a group of laboratory analyzers, same analyte identification, and corresponding to patients with the same identified one or more demographics; generating a standard deviation of deltas (SDD) plot of the received and retrieved measurement values;   determining whether the measurement value corresponds to a normal or abnormal condition based on the generated SDD plot; and   altering patient care based on the determination of whether the measurement value corresponds to the normal or abnormal condition