TherapySelector vs AusculThing Learn

TherapySelector supports you as a physician to easily and quickly choose a data-based, person-centered treatment for hypertension and hepatitis C for and with your patient during consultation hours. The app shows in a single glance information about the effectiveness of medication based on the disease remission (systolic blood pressure lower than 140 mmHg for hypertension and viral clearance in hepatitis C), the likelihood of adverse events, cost and patient group size. This overview allows you to easily and quickly decide on the best person-centered treatment method for your patient, based on study data. How does TherapySelector work? First you enter the requested characteristics of your patient by answering 4 simple questions about etiology, disease stage, previous treatments and comorbidities. Based on this, a profile of the patient is determined. The app then shows an overview of all registered treatments for that specific patient profile, based on frequently updated study results. For each therapy you find information about effectiveness, possible adverse events and costs. TherapySelector currently provides the following features: • Determination of patient profiles based on four simple questions about the patient. • Probability of "success" of all registered medication (combinations) for hypertension and hepatitis C, together with the probability of adverse events associated with the patient profile, based on individual patient data from key clinical scientific studies. • For hypertension: overview of therapy options with Thiazide diuretics (THZ), Calcium Channel Blockers (CCA), ACE inhibitors (ACEi) or Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARB). Information on monotherapy with dose increase (Titrate), and results of stepwise addition of medication (Titrate & Add). • Detail information, including information about dosage (of the therapy regime) and the cost of a specific treatment. • Availability in both English and Dutch. TherapySelector is intended to provide physicians and patients person-centered information to support them in choosing the most appropriate treatment. In doing so, the app complements guidelines that are based on the ‘average’ patient. The TherapySelector app can be used without creating an account. Developed with (academic) medical centers and research institutes TherapySelector is developed by TherapySelector in collaboration with physicians and scientists associated with universities and leading academic medical centers such as the Erasmus MC, LUMC and MUMC+. The data in the app has been authorized by specialists from Dutch scientific associations. The results are calculated using anonymous patient data from scientific studies of published randomized controlled trials, other phase 2 & 3 studies and prospective real-life studies around the world (high quality research). Research groups and sponsors make their data available for this purpose. About TherapySelector TherapySelector B.V. is a social enterprise. Our mission is to improve health care globally by enriching it with person-centered treatment information based on the most recent data from scientific studies. It is not our goal to make profit. With the TherapySelector app, we facilitate doctors with person-centered care to achieve health gains for their patients. Additionally, we want to aid in controlling the rising costs of healthcare for the public, e.g. by preventing over- and under-treatment. Follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/therapyselector) or visit www.therapyselector.com.

This application is intended to help medical students, doctors, nurses, medical professionals or other interested in developing their auscultation skills as well as their understanding on phonocardiograms. The application includes real heart sound recordings from over 50 paediatric patients with diagnosis validated by a cardiologist and an echocardiogram. The heart sound recordings in the application are real recordings recorded with an Thinklabs One electronic stethoscope in a clinic. The quality of the sounds are top notch but have intentionally been left with occasional breath sounds and noises to give an realistic view of auscultation, i.e. real practice on the subject! The application includes a study module for the most common defects and an extensive practice sections where you can try to diagnose the patient only by auscultation. The practice section is done with and without visual aid of a phonocardiogram signal, in order to enforce learning and understanding of the sounds. Also there is a quick start or help section for the user who is new to auscultation and phonocardiograms. SUMMARY: - 50+ paediatric patients - 200+ heart sound recordings - 20+ quality pictures of heart defects NOTE! - A (completely free) user account is needed for using the app. Why? We would like to learn how to teach auscultation and therefore we collect data of the use of the application. This helps us improve the application and possibly conduct academic research on the topic. - Be aware that heart sound samples are downloaded in the "PRACTICE" section from an external server. Therefore internet use can be "heavy" if the user uses the practice section extensively.