Patent Document ID: 8489429
Application ID: 11627045
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining infection risk of a particular patient, the method comprising: receiving a set of infection risk factors of the particular patient encountering a healthcare provider, wherein infection risk factors included in the set of infection risk factors include a condition with which the particular patient is diagnosed, a surgery the particular patient will undergo, an age of the particular patient, and a body mass index of the particular patient; referencing in a computer memory device a set of benchmark infection risk factors derived from historical patient outcomes data to retrieve a respective quantified infection risk probability for each infection risk factor included in the set of infection risk factors; calculating by a processor a patient infection risk assessment value by summing: (1) a first quantified infection risk probability that is related to the condition and that is weighted by a factor of 1.5 relative to other quantified infection risk probabilities; (2) a second quantified infection risk probability related to historical patient outcomes of patients that underwent the surgery; (3) a third quantified infection risk probability related to historical patient outcomes of patients in a same age group as the particular patient; and (4) a fourth quantified infection risk probability related to historical patient outcomes of patients having body mass indexes in a same range as the particular patient; and displaying the patient infection risk assessment value in a graphical representation, wherein the graphical representation includes a plot of the patient infection risk assessment value versus an instant in time at which the patient infection risk assessment value applies to the particular patient.