Protocols
An assessment protocol fixes the assessment and gives the patient material they have never seen. You measure their progress, not their memory of the list.
The principle
A protocol is a locked session template, paired with equivalent versions of material.
Locked
Difficulty and exercise list fixed when saved.
A protocol is a session template on which the clinician turns on “Assessment protocol” and picks a code.
Once saved, the difficulty and the exercise list are locked. Name, description, notes and sharing stay editable.
Duplicating a protocol gives a locked protocol with the same code.
Parallel versions
The patient never sees the same list twice.
Each protocol has equivalent versions (a, b, c…) whose words do not overlap.
At assignment, the server gives the patient a version they have never taken, even if that session was deleted since.
Once the patient has taken every version, NeuroTrack refuses a new assessment and asks for a new version.
Separate series
Assessment results stay out of training.
In “Exercise-level trend”, the Assessment series sits next to the Training series.
An assessment runs without help or feedback, at fixed difficulty: it does not compare point by point with training.
It does not count towards the baseline and is never adjusted.
Two kinds of session
In training, the exercise helps and encourages. In assessment, it measures: nothing should help the patient from one trial to the next.
| Setting | Training | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Hint buttons | Shown | Hidden |
| Feedback after each trial | Yes | None |
| Score visible to the patient | Yes | Hidden |
| “Skip” button | Allowed | Hidden |
| Difficulty | Adjustable | Fixed by the protocol |
| Duration | Per configuration | Mandatory |
| Material | Free or drawn at random | Protocol version, never served twice |
No manual switch: an assessment session always comes from a protocol. An interrupted assessment is voided, never half-scored.
In practice
NeuroTrack administrator
Create the versions
They create versions a, b, c of a protocol code and attach equivalent words. A version already served can no longer be deleted.
Clinician
Create the protocol
In “Templates”, they turn on “Assessment protocol”, pick the code, set the difficulty and the exercises. On saving, the template locks.
Clinician
Assign the assessment
From the patient record, “Use this template” creates an Assessment session, with a version the patient has never seen.
Patient
Take the assessment
No hints, no feedback, no “Skip”. An interrupted assessment is voided, never half-scored.
Reading results
An assessment runs without help or feedback, at fixed difficulty. Comparing it point by point with training would make no sense.
MMSE and MoCA
NeuroTrack administers neither the MMSE nor the MoCA and produces no battery score. It flags shared paradigms to help the clinician build a protocol.
MMSE-oriented
Every exercise of the session or template is linked to an MMSE item.
MoCA-oriented
Every exercise of the session or template is linked to a MoCA item.
Close to: …
On each exercise, the battery item whose paradigm it follows.
Protocol fcsrt_like
The template declares its reference protocol: its orientation is not inferred from its exercises.
Questions
One per planned assessment. A patient followed at baseline, six months and one year needs three versions. NeuroTrack warns you when only one version is left.
Assignment is refused, with a message asking you to add a version to the protocol. An assessment on a list already seen would measure learning.
Name, description, notes and sharing: yes. Difficulty and exercise list: no, because two assessments of the same patient must stay comparable. To change the content, create a new protocol.
No. An “MMSE-oriented” or “MoCA-oriented” badge shows that every exercise of the template mirrors an item of the battery. An orientation is not an equivalence.
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