CAS-II

Comprehensive Cognitive Assessment

The Cognistat Assessment System is a computer-assisted on-line version of the original test. It is a 20-minute test administered by a trained healthcare professional.

Cognistat is a recognized gold standard for domain-specific cognitive screening and testing that was developed at a Stanford teaching hospital by a neurologist, neuropsychologist and a neuropsychiatrist. More than 800 peer-reviewed articles describe its power in assessing the cognitive functioning of patients with a broad range of medical, neurological, psychiatric and
substance-related illness.

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Who is suited to benefit from Cognistat?

Universities, government centers, and research institutes use Cognistat for measurement, forecasting, and macro planning.

Clinics and nursing homes utilize it to examine injuries and monitor changes in cognitive indicators.

Cognistat helps assess the effects of occupations on individuals’ cognitive levels and provides ongoing evaluation of employees.

Features

Web-based with secure HIPPA compliant database

Creates electronic medical records

Allows for flexible data storage and ready access to patient information

Can be administered from anywhere on any device of your choice

System expert commentary that helps the examiner in real-time

Provides automated scoring and profiling

Ready access to prior screening

Domains

What the Cognistat Assessment System Tests?

Cognistat has long been recognized as the leading cognitive screening instrument for assessing the five major ability areas:

  • language
  • spatial skills
  • memory
  • calculations
  • reasoning

Cognistat also examines the three foundational areas:

  • attention span
  • registration (learning)
  • orientation

Benefits

How the Cognistat Assessment System Enhances Lives?

Cognistat promotes and tracks Brain Fitness

  • Establishes baseline
  • Monitors the progression of illness or response to treatment
  • Permits longitudinal analysis
  • Provides opportunity for intervention
  • Identifies factors that impact test performance
  • Offers medication insight
  • Alerts the examiner to issues of possible concern
Cognistat Benefits for patients

Test Characteristics

How the Cognistat Assessment System Can Be Administered?

The test can be administered by a range of health care clinicians, including:

  • psychologists
  • nurses
  • physicians
  • speech therapists
  • social workers

Testing can be done at home, in a clinic, in a private offices and remotely via an on-line video link (e.g. Zoom etc).

The Cognistat Assessmemnt System (CAS-II) can be administered in the following languages:

  • English
  • Arabic
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Czech

Specifications

Is administered by a health-care professional

Provides automatic scoring

Automatically generates a graphic profile that highlights areas of impairment and relative intactness

Permits the user to create custom cognitive profiles that represent local normative populations

Browser Agnostic & Web Based (Runs on PC, Tabelt, Smartphone)

Guides clinicians in identifying information regarding state factors that have the potential to impact patient performance

Contains an embedded copy of the Cognistat Manual, which provides real-time help to the examiner on all aspects of test administration, including the phrasing of questions and evaluation of answers

Provides detailed information on medications that may impact test performance

Creates a patient electronic data record (EDR) that can be used to generate longitudinal data and facilitate data analysis, comparisons and trending

Allows data to be shared between and among clinical groups

Is fully HIPPA, HL7 and Part 11b compliant

FAQ

Cognitive assessment is a critical component of a diagnostic evaluation. It is a part of the mental status examination performed by psychiatrists and neurologists. A patient’s cognitive status is of great relevance to medical practitioners as well as nurses, rehabilitation professionals, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers and geriatric case managers. The pattern of specific cognitive strengths and weaknesses provides a basis for diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and counseling.

All versions of Cognistat can be administered by trained healthcare professionals, including nurses, speech pathologists, occupational therapists and clinical and nursing assistants. Training videos are provided via the Internet.

NO. Cognistat cannot be self-administered. The test requires a healthcare professional to observe and interview the patient, propose the questions and record the answers.

Cognistat test results can be interpreted at different levels. Any trained healthcare professional can describe an individual’s test performance as falling within the average range or in the mild, moderate or severe range of impairment on specific subtests. Psychological or medical training is
required in order to determine the diagnostic significance of test results.

YES, we provide clinical support. Information on how to contact is given on our website. In addition, over 800 peer-reviewed articles describing Cognistat's psychometric properties and its use with a variety of medical and psychiatric populations are located in the manual and on Cognistat's on-line list of references.

YES. The test can be repeated. Two additional four word lists are provided for the Memory section.