Patent ID: 8340982

Claim:
A computer based system for assessing the impact of one or more ailments on a health related quality of life (HRQOL) domain of a patient, wherein said HRQOL domain comprises a plurality of indicators of functional health and well being, comprising: a microprocessor configured to: generate a customized test having a plurality of questions for said patient to determine the impact of said one or more ailments on said HRQOL domain, wherein each question comprises an indicator of functional health and well being as a result of said one or more ailments, wherein said indicator is stably scaled across ailments whose impact is to be assessed to establish a standardized common metric for comparing the impact of various ailments; administer said test by providing one question at a time to said patient; evaluate, after each question, answers provided by said patient to estimate an ailment impact score and a confidence level in the accuracy of said estimated ailment impact score for each of the one or more ailments; vary a threshold, after each question, as a function of said estimated aliment impact scores during administration of said test to said patient; and dynamically modify said test if said estimated confidence level is outside said threshold for each of the one or more ailments; an interface associated with said microprocessor to present said test to said patient and to receive said answers provided by said patient; and a database associated with said processor to store said test, said plurality of questions, said answers provided by said patient, and said estimated ailment impact scores.