Patent Document ID: 8087938
Application ID: 11966439
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for recertifying or monitoring performance of a clinical rater participating in a clinical trial comprising: receiving one or more rater inputs reflecting the rater's clinical evaluation of a severity of a previously diagnosed condition in a subject; performing a computerized assessment of the subject to quantify severity of the previously diagnosed condition in the subject through a computerized interview that comprises: presenting a first question to the subject and receiving a first input from the subject in response thereto; based on the first input, selecting a second question from a plurality of questions; presenting the selected second question to the subject and receiving a second input from the subject in response thereto; and based on one or more inputs received from the subject, determining in accordance with a clinical rating scale a computerized severity score for the previously diagnosed condition in the subject; and determining, via a processor, whether the one or more rater inputs are in accordance with the computerized severity score.