Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Printable Patient Diaries

There is an abundance of patient symptom diaries and trackers available on the internet. Many are sponsored by drug companies in hopes that you will prescribe their medication for the symptoms. Others are from associations or foundations devoted to advocacy for a specific disease.

Cigna Insurance has a huge collection of symptom trackers, self-assessments and checklists for patients with topics such as:


The medical librarian blogger at InfoRxCases has assembled a useful list of printable symptom diaries for patients to fill out.

Some topics include:

Health Link BC: Sleep diary
International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Bowel disorder symptom diary (pdf)
About.com: Tracking fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms
American Urogynecologic Society Foundation: Bladder diary
National Headache Foundation: Headache diary
WebMD: Food diary and food allergy triggers
American Cancer Society's Great American health challenge: Food diary

Symptom Diary from Ovarian Cancer Alliance

3 comments:

lulu said...

Another site that allows for online journaling with specific questions for a range of chronic conditions, plus nutrition, fitness and goal setting is http://www.symptomjournal.com

Blakely said...

Hi! We developed an app for BlackBerry, iPhone and iPod touch for patients with headache. It is called iHeadache. We are working on a web version as well. Patients can track symptoms, disability, triggers and medications. Right now there is a small charge for the app but we just got sponsorship from a pharmaceutical company so a free version will be out in June! Check us out at http://www.iHeadacheApp.com.

Blakely said...

Forgot to mention... iHeadache was developed by a neurologist named Brian D. Loftus, M.D. If any physicians would like brochures to give to patients please request them. We are happy to send them to you.