A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DISEASE STATE, HEALTH, AND COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus for assessing a state of a primary disease or a comorbidity associated with a primary disease are provided. The methods comprise receiving at least one autonomic index, neurologic index, stress marker index, psychiatric index, endocrine index, adverse effect of therapy index, physical fitness index, or quality of life index of a patient; comparing the at least one index to at least one reference value; and assessing a state of a primary disease or a body system of the patient that is a site of the comorbidity, based on the comparison. A computer readable program storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method described above is also provided. A medical device system capable of implementing a method described above is also provided.