Improving patient assessment after stroke: The Cambridge and Oxford Automated Screening Test (COAST) (360G-Wellcome-102566_B_13_Z)

£117,308

Every year 150,000 UK residents suffer a stroke. Cognitive problems (e.g. difficulties with language) and low mood are common and undermine recovery. Consequently NHS guidelines recommend that all patients have brief test ‘screens’ to detect these problems and better target care. Unfortunately, due to a lack of materials, skilled staff and staff-time, audits show these targets are often unmet.The Cambridge and Oxford Automated Screening Test (COAST) is designed to solve this problem. It is a set of brief computerised cognitive and mood measures, easily administered by staff using touchscreen tablets. COAST guides health workers through the tests, collects responses from patients, and automatically generates clinical reports. The tests are specially designed to detect problems prevalent after stroke and to include all patients. It is highly portable and requires no specialist equipment beyond devices already widely in use. It frees staff from administrative chores allowing increased patient contact. A project team led by Dr Tom Manly (MRC Cambridge) and Professor Glyn Humphreys (University of Oxford) have developed COAST from a rigorous evidence-base. The award will support the crucial final stages of the project (collecting assessment results from patient and healthy populations and NHS field trials), enabling COAST to make a real difference to clinical care within 3 years.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 117308
Applicant Surname Manly
Approval Committee Health Innovation Challenge Fund
Award Date 2013-11-28T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2013/14
Grant Programme: Title Health Innovation Challenge Fund Award
Internal ID 102566/B/13/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Tom Manly
Partnership Name Health Innovation Challenge Fund
Partnership Value 262632
Planned Dates: End Date 2018-01-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region South West