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Details
Inventors: Mayfield, Mary E.;
Assignee: M M & K, Inc. (Santa Fe, NM)
Primary Examiner: Rosenbaum; Mark
Assistant Examiner: Vo; Peter Dungba
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Duggan; Donovan F., Baker; Rod D., Peacock; Deborah A.

The disclosure is directed to a chart listing medications, dosage times, and notes. Tactile and visual medication symbols and marking elements denote specific times for taking specific medications. Medication containers are similarly marked.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION (DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION) The present invention relates to a medication management system.
The management system is geared toward flexible daily use, i.
e.
, the system serves to allow the user to schedule the ingestion or application of an assortment of medications during the course of a single day, which schedule can be readily modified to accommodate a change in regimen for a subsequent day.
This system comprises a chart which includes: names of medicines to be taken by a patient which are marked on the chart, coded symbols marked or disposed on the chart which correspond to the medicines (marked on the chart) to be taken by the patient; times of the day (marked, printed, or otherwise disposed on the chart) for the medicines to be taken by the patient; and medication marking elements disposed on the chart, the medication marking elements corresponding to the coded symbols and positioned on the chart in such a manner to indicate the time of the day at which the medicines are to be taken by the patient.
The coded symbols are preferably positioned adjacent the names of medicines marked on the chart.
In the preferred embodiment, the coded symbols comprise distinctive varying shapes, such as circles, square, triangles, diamonds, crosses, rectangles, stars, and the like, for designating corresponding various medicines to be taken by the patient.
Each medication marking element is preferably substantially identical in shape to its corresponding coded symbol for designating each particular medicine to be taken by the patient.
Also in the preferred embodiment, the coded symbols are coded via varying colors for designating various medicines to be taken by the patient.
Likewise, each medication marking element should be substantially identical in color to its corresponding coded symbol for designating each particular medicine to be taken by the patient.
The medication marking elements may comprise pins, marks made by marking pencils or pens, magnetic marker elements, tacks and the like



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