SAGE:
Series of Assessments to Guide Evaluation
Assess patient symptoms quickly, comprehensively and at low cost.
The SAGE is a streamlined battery of psychological tests which screen for a current episode of up to 30 diagnoses. The tests can be administered independently or in combination. Results are clinically valid and are compatible with international behavioral health diagnostic standards (DSM-5 and ICD-11).
Administer quick, comprehensive screenings by self-report.
Easy and intuitive to use, the SAGE tests ask a series of questions written at fifth-grade reading level. The SAGE-SR (self-report version) is web-based and can be taken in the waiting room or from home using an e-mailed link. The screening tests take about 6 to 12 minutes to complete. Follow-up diagnostic tests take an additional 0 to 20 minutes to complete, depending on symptoms endorsed.
A rigorous diagnostic report is immediately available.
Instant user-friendly reports provide a differential diagnosis (SR) or specific diagnosis (CI) with ICD-10 codes for the clinician. Clinicians can send interpretive reports immediately to the patient’s EHR. SAGE reports enable clinicians to delve deeper in face-to-face appointments, researchers to make important decisions, and pharmaceutical companies to recruit more precisely for trials. To learn more about interpreting the SAGE Diagnostic Report, view the video: Interpreting the SAGE Report >
Track client change and progress over time.
Clinicians can decide how often they would a client to take follow-up assessments. The follow-ups include a subset of questions from each module that show the change over time for certain symptoms. Clients only see questions which they received in the initial SAGE, so follow-up assessments take only a few minutes. The clinician will then receive a report showing the change in severity for each initial diagnosis.
Praise for the SAGE
“Our primary care physicians have come to really rely on the high-quality reports produced by the SAGE-SR using TeleSage’s PORTAL. The SAGE-SR has helped us to capture co-morbid diagnoses that are easy for a busy primary care physician with a large practice to miss.”
Joris Wiggers, MD
Medical Lead, Community Psychiatry
Island Health Authority
British Columbia, Canada
“We are currently using the SAGE-SR to screen participants for six ongoing clinical trials. The SAGE-SR diagnostic system is quick, easy-to-use, and convenient.”
Dr. Joseph Alcorn III, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Human Behavioral Pharmacology (LHBP)
College of Medicine, University of Kentucky
How can the SAGE advance research and clinical work?
Explore a wide range of symptoms quantitatively and at minimal cost: The SAGE promotes accurate diagnosis and ensures that co-occurring disorders are properly identified, generating appropriate ICD-10 codes.
Quickly identify patients who might be eligible to participate in specific clinical trials: Since a detailed analysis of symptoms will be included in a searchable database, the SAGE will enable researchers quickly to identify patients who might be eligible to participate in specific clinical trials.
Identify symptoms that are most likely to improve with a specific intervention: The SAGE may make it possible to identify the symptom clusters that are associated with a good response to specific interventions. It may also help identify the symptoms that are most likely to improve with a specific intervention.
Identify symptom clusters most commonly associated with specific biomarkers: Once a very large database exists, the SAGE will also make it possible to search the symptom database to identify the symptom clusters most commonly associated with specific biomarkers.
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Behavioral Health Diagnoses and Outcomes
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 | USA
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