The drugogram, or the chronic treatment chart is a display that shows the current drug regimen of a patient enrolled into a treatment which involves a varying set of drugs over the course of the treatment.
For example, for the treatment of a disease like tuberculosis the patients are kept on a regimen of 4 or more drugs throughout the treatment duration. The dosage of these drugs and the drugs regimen itself is changed on the basis of the response that the patient has to a particular regimen. For instance if the patient is responding adversely to a drug, its dosage might be reduced or the drug might be stopped completely, conversely new drugs maybe added to the regimen of the patient. The drugogram is a composite display that shows all of these changes at a glance.
How does it work?
Below is an example of a drugogram for a patient on 4 drugs.