Patent ID: 8425235

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving one or more rater inputs reflecting the rater's clinical evaluation of a severity of a previously diagnosed condition in one or more subjects; receiving one or more severity scores for the previously diagnosed condition in the one or more subjects, wherein said severity scores have been calculated by: (a) presenting a first question to the subject and receiving a first input from the subject in response thereto; (b) based on the first input, selecting a second question from a plurality of questions; (c) presenting the selected second questions to the subject and receiving a second input from the subject in response thereto; and (d) based on one or more inputs received from the subject, determining in accordance with a clinical rating scale the severity score for a previously diagnosed condition in the subject; and determining, via a processor, whether the one or more rater inputs are in accordance with the one or more severity scores, respectively.