contexio  GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT WIZARD

Interactive Software Toolkit for the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

Relational Database Version 2.0

Programmed by Roman Kleindienst, MD

Geriatric Assessment Wizard 2.0 is an interactive scientific toolkit based on a professional geriatric assessment database program for physicians or geriatric assessment teams. You can perform the following test procedures using the computer for documentation and archival, calculation of scores, automatic interpretation of tests and printout of results:

• Barthel Index

• Clock Completion Test

• Digit Span Test

• Geriatric Depression Scale

• Hachinski Test

• Handgrip Strength

• Incontinence Screening

• Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

• Mini Mental State Examination

• Mini Nutritional Assessment

• Norton Pressure Ulcer Risk Scale

• Social Situation

• Timed Test of Money Counting

• Timed “Up & Go" Test

• Tinetti Test

• Trail Making Tests

• Transfer Scale

There are also data fields available for

• bodyfat measurement by bioimpedance analysis,

• sensory perception and pain,

• laboratory parameters,

• medication, medical history, notes

• reports for physiotherapist, social worker, dietitian, ergotherapist and logotherapist

• diagnoses and

• additional patient related data.

INTERACTIVE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

International standardized Geriatric Assessment Tests and Comprehensive Assessment Result:

The program automatically generates a comprehensive assessment result containing patient data, mode of assessment, mode of admission, cognitive function and differential diagnosis of dementia, psychic situation, arousal and vigilance, activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living, nutritional status and body-composition, mobility and risk for falls, sensory perception and pain, calculated renal function, incontinence screening, and information concerning the social situation. The geriatrician just needs to add some remarks or the medical procedure to complete the report.

RELATIONAL DATABASE

The easy to use relational database collects data in more than 1000 fields per patient and archives all results electronically.

Most important functions: navigate through records, create, edit, and clear records, password protection on different security levels, printout of all layouts, export of any data in different formats, import of data, user-definable value-lists for selected fields, complex requests to the database for any field, sort data by any field, edit text with drag and drop, recovery of damaged records, zoom function on screen and others.

There have been some user-definable fields included in some layouts.

It is possible to translate English text of questionnaires for all relevant tests to a different language.

Geriatric Assessment Wizard can export data in these formats (Windows filename-extensions and description of formats):

• Tab-Separated Text  .TAB or .TXT   Export to most applications.

• DBF  .DBF  Export to dBASEIII and dBASEIV. This format retains field names.

• DIF  .DIF   Export to spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel. This format retains field names.

• BASIC  .BAS    Export to Microsoft BASIC programs.

• Comma-Separated Values / Comma-Separated Text  .CSV or .TXT   Export to BASIC programs and applications like dBASE.

• FileMaker Pro  .FP5  Export to FileMaker Pro 5. This format retains field names.

• HTML Table   .HTM   Export data as an HTML table for use on a Web page. Rows are records and columns are fields.

• Merge  .MER   Export to a file to create form letters in a word processor. This format exports field names.

• SYLK   .SLK   Export to most spreadsheet applications.

• WKS, WK1   .WK1 or .WKS    Export to Lotus 1-2-3 and other spreadsheet applications.

USER´S GUIDE

The user´s guide (PDF-format) gives information about

databases in general, fields and records, layouts, program-modes, menus , toolbars, file management, input,  edit, and clearing data, working with text, finding and sorting records, print functions, import and export of data, supported data formats, backup, recovery of damaged records and a complete listing of all field names and field types used by the programmer with specification of their contents.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT WIZARD

For information to obtain a demo-version of GAW 2.0 or to order a license for the database version please contact

Roman Kleindienst,  MD

contexio database engineering

A-9640 Koetschach-Mauthen, Koetschach 572, Austria, Europe

click here to send e-mail

THANKS TO

The Novartis Foundation for Gerontology, Bale, Switzerland, especially
Stephanie Dor, Maisons-Laffitte, France,
Willi Stoeckl, Vienna, Austria, and
Dr. Robert Griffith, Santa Fee, New Mexico, USA for support for this geriatric assessment software
Prof. Hans Peter Rhomberg, MD, former Medical Director of the Hospital of Hochzirl, Anna-Dengel-House, Austria, for establishing a Geriatric Assessment Unit and for his support.
Markus Gosch, MD, Head of the Geriatric Assessment Unit and Helena Talasz, MD, at the Hospital of Hochzirl for their help and expertise on the field of geriatric assessment.
Prof. Thorsten Nikolaus, MD, Head of the Bethesda Geriatric Clinic, Ulm, Germany, for his support and advice for this software and all the members of the working group for geriatric assessment
MMV - Medical Publisher, Munich, Germany, for granting copyrights.
Patricia S. Anthony, MS, RD, Clinical Nutrition Support Services, Nutrition Strategic Business Division, Nestec Ltd. for granting the right to include the Mini-Nutritional Assessment MNA^®.
Russel Kujan, Communications Director, Maryland Medical Society, for permission to include the Barthel Index.
The European Academy for Medicine of Ageing (EAMA) and the Institut universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion, Switzerland, for their outstanding engagement in geriatrics.

FileMaker is a registered trademark of FileMaker Inc., U.S.

Technical characteristics of Geriatric Assessment Wizard subject to change without notice.

(C) 2001-2008   Dr. R. Kleindienst  e-mail

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