Custom cognitive assessments are tailored protocols of Creyos cognitive tasks and standardized questionnaires that clinicians build and administer directly within the platform, giving them the flexibility to quickly assess patients for a variety of cognitive concerns.
Cognitive testing can be used to objectively identify potential impairment, allowing clinicians to better understand a patient’s brain health. By mapping these performance patterns to domains commonly impacted in disorders like dementia (memory) or ADHD (executive function), clinicians gain valuable data to guide diagnostic and treatment decisions.
Article Highlights
Custom cognitive assessments let clinicians administer any combination of Creyos cognitive tasks and standardized questionnaires, in the order they choose.
- Many clinics use a comprehensive cognitive function test at intake as a baseline, then quicker custom assessments in follow-up sessions that focus on the cognitive domains relevant to each patient’s condition and treatment.
- There are two ways to build custom assessments in Creyos: a one-time protocol administered from a patient’s profile, and a saved protocol you can administer to multiple patients.
- Assessments can be administered on the current device, by generating a link, or by sending an email.
- Saved protocols appear in the Protocols drop-down, making it easy to administer consistently across patients and ensure standardized data collection.
Why use custom cognitive assessments?
With so many conditions commonly associated with cognitive effects, how do clinicians know which tests to use to evaluate which conditions? Is there a single tool they should leverage, or do they need to look for condition-specific tests?
Creyos is a comprehensive digital cognitive testing platform because it lets providers completely customize their assessments for more targeted evaluation of suspected conditions. Providers can assess patients confidently knowing that the testing protocol they’re administering is backed by research linking each task or domain of cognition to certain health conditions and is therefore designed specifically for their needs and their patients.
Custom assessments are also a critical part of providing personalized care. A personalized approach to cognitive health guides clinicians towards the most effective treatments for individual patients. It also allows clinicians and patients to make informed decisions about their cognitive care. With Creyos, you can customize your assessments to deliver the tailored care your patients need.
How do custom assessments save time?
Customizing cognitive testing can also help you save significant time and effort through workflow optimization. For example, many clinics use Creyos to conduct comprehensive cognitive function tests as part of patient intake to gain a detailed, yet straightforward, baseline understanding of a patient's cognitive strengths and weaknesses before creating treatment or intervention plans.
In follow-up sessions, and as the patient progresses through their treatment plan, the clinician can then set up quicker, custom assessments that focus on the cognitive domains relevant to that specific patient’s condition and treatment. With this feature, clinicians don’t have to conduct a complete assessment to track their patients’ progress. They can save critical time while still monitoring cognitive abilities that require the most focus.
How to build custom cognitive assessments in Creyos
There are two ways to build and administer custom assessments in the Creyos platform, using any combination of the Creyos cognitive tasks:
- Create a one-time protocol, ideal for one-time, on-the-fly assessments.
- Create a new protocol that you save and administer to multiple patients.
For more information on how Creyos can be used to screen for a variety of conditions, explore our Condition-Based Research Guide.
How to create a one-time protocol
In this workflow, clinicians can administer a tailored set of tasks and questionnaires directly from a patient’s profile, ideal for one-time, on-the-fly assessments.
Select the patient and start a protocol
Select the patient from the Patients List and click “Start Protocol” to administer all types of assessments. Select how you’d like to administer the assessment:
- On the current device
- By generating a link
- By sending an email
Choose to create a one-time protocol
Select “Administer Your Own Protocol.” From the drop-down, select “Create a One-Time Protocol.”
Select and order tasks and questionnaires
From here, you can select tasks, as well as standardized questionnaires, to add to the protocol either individually or grouped by the cognitive domains in which they measure. To change the order of the tasks, click and drag the tasks into the order you’d like them to be administered.
Confirm the details and administer
When a clinician is satisfied with the tasks selected and the order in which they will be administered, they can then click “Next.” On the next screen, confirm the details of the assessment to administer the protocol via the method selected earlier.
How to create and save a new protocol
This workflow lets clinicians save a custom protocol and efficiently administer it to multiple patients.
Name the new protocol
From the Protocols section, click “Create New Protocol” and give the assessment a clear, descriptive name that aligns with your organization.
Add tasks and questionnaires to the protocol
Select the tasks and questionnaires that you would like to include in the assessment. Click and drag to change the order in which they are administered.
Save the protocol
Click “Save” to confirm the details of the assessment. Once saved, the custom assessment will appear in the Protocols drop-down, making it easy to administer consistently across patients, streamline workflows, and ensure standardized data collection.
Key takeaway
Custom assessments give clinicians the necessary flexibility so that they can optimize their workflows, save time, and personalize care to their patient population. Providers are empowered with objective data to make confident diagnoses and care decisions, knowing that the assessments they use are tailored to the specific needs of their patients and their practice.
Creyos makes administering custom assessments easy and fast, so providers can put time back into their day and spend it where it matters most, caring for their patients.
Reviewed by Mike Battista, Director of Science & Research at Creyos
Mike Battista specializes in brain health, cognition, and neuropsychological testing. He received his PhD in personality and measurement psychology at Western University in 2010 and has been doing fun and useful stuff in the intersection between science and technology ever since.