Post-stroke Triage "DOC": Simple Screening for Depression, Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cognitive Impairment

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognitive Impairment; Stroke; Transient Ischemic Attack; Depression; Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02007265

306-2011

No. 000392 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether simple, evidence-based clinical screening be quickly and feasibly implemented (>85% of patients in an average of <6 minutes) in large-volume urgent transient ischemic attack (TIA)/stroke clinics to identify individuals at high risk for the three most common and devastating post-stroke co-morbidities (depression, obstructive sleep apnea and cognitive disorders).

Full description

We have created a simple screening tool (the "DOC" Screen) that will be routinely applied to all patients at a high-volume Regional Stroke Prevention Clinic. Consenting patients will also undergo "gold standard" research assessments in order to determine the diagnostic characteristics of the screen compared to gold standard research assessments.The proportion of eligible patients who complete DOC screening and the time for completion (mean, range, standard deviations) will be calculated from aggregated data for all new consults in the stroke prevention clinic. For patients who consented to undergo gold standard testing, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and likelihood ratios of the DOC screen will be calculated. Screening cut-points will be optimized using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) and area under the curve analysis, and logistic regression will be applied to this ROC Curve analysis to control for variables such as age, sex, BMI and education. We hope to develop a pragmatic approach to screening the large, high-risk stroke prevention clinic population, allowing broad screening for these important health conditions. This could change routine standard of care across stroke prevention clinics and facilitate early identification and appropriate assessment of patients.

Enrollment: 1,504 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Attending outpatient TIA and Stroke Prevention Clinics at any of the three regional stroke centres.

Exclusion criteria

• Those who are unable to complete the screen complete the screen due to severe aphasia, severe motor dysfunction and those who are not fluent in English without translation available.

Trial design

1,504 participants in 1 patient group

TIA and SPC outpatients

Description:

All consecutive patients attending outpatient TIA and Stroke Prevention Clinics at three regional stroke centres will be eligible to be screened.