Patent ID: 8170888

Claim:
A multi-dimensional system that utilizes a common scale for assessing, coding, quantifying, displaying, integrating and communicating information relating to patient health and perioperative risk, comprising: a computer station with a graphical user interface for inputting patient information to a database and a processor which calculates and presents an output to a computer station with a graphical user interface for providing the output relating to the patient health and perioperative risk, wherein the output, which is viewable by the user via the graphical user interface, includes: a score for the physical condition of the patient, wherein the score for the physical condition of the patient is a predetermined common scale applied to overall physical condition and to various body systems; a score for the degree of expected surgical risk and invasiveness, wherein the score for the degree of expected surgical risk and invasiveness is based on the predetermined common scale used for the score for the physical condition of the patient; a score for other vital assessments of perioperative complexity, wherein the score for other vital assessments of perioperative complexity is based on the predetermined common scale used for the score for the physical condition of the patient, and the score for other vital assessments of perioperative complexity includes a code relating to the vital assessments.