METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING, QUANTIFYING, CODING & COMMUNIICATING PATIENT'S HEALTH AND PERIOPERATIVE RISK

摘要

A multi-dimensional system for assessing, coding, quantifying, displaying, integrating and communicating information relating to patient health and perioperative risk includes a mechanism for inputting patient information and providing an output relating to the patient health and perioperative risk. The output includes a score for the physical condition of the patient, a score for the degree of expected surgical risk and invasiveness, a score for other vital assessments of perioperative complexity, and alphanumeric codes for other factors that may require special preoperative preparation and planning.

主权项

1. A multi-dimensional system that quantitatively organizes otherwise non-quantified and independently quantified information with respect to a patient's medical issues by utilizing commonly scaled numeric rankings comprising:
a computer station comprising:
a graphical user interface for inputting patient information to a database;a conversion dictionary providing a uniform numeric vocabulary for assessment of text and measurements pertaining to a patient's health status with a common scale, the conversion dictionary providing for conversion of patient information input via the graphical user interface to provide common numeric coding and scoring across myriad conditions and bodily systems; anda processor which calculates health assessments based upon a template and uniform scaling in accordance with the conversion dictionary, activity status for each condition and severity at a level of an encompassing bodily system and at a target level; the processor presenting an output to the graphical user interface for providing the output relating to health of the patient wherein, when graded assessment of the health of the patient is indicated, the output includes one-time or serial uniformly scaled assessments regarding conditions, targets, systems and/or regions within and among patients.