Patent attributes
Decision support technology is provided for use with patients who may experience respiratory deterioration. A mechanism is provided to determine an indicator of a patient's probability of deterioration of respiratory functioning, which may include calculating a probability of a respiratory deterioration event in patients from whom serial digital recordings of respiratory sounds are acquired. A forecast or score representing a likelihood of deterioration may be generated and used for pulmonary disease prognosis, diagnosis, and/or determining or implementing an appropriate response action such as automatically issuing an alert or notification to a caregiver associated with the patient.