The ME Association Clinical Assessment Toolkit App
The ME Association Clinical Assessment Toolkit is available digitally and publicly via our autonom-e app.
- Download the Autonom-e app from the app store
- Register a free account on the ME Association’s MEA-CAT
- Complete the ME Association’s Clinical Assessment Toolkit to support personal management, clinical practice, and conversations with your employer
- Generate clinical reports to help interpret your information
- Access support resources curated by the ME Association
- Direct access to ME Connect, local support groups and nearby services
- Access future updates driven by research with patients for the price of a coffee per month
Purchase subscriptions directly through the app (independently) or for use in clinical services by contacting us at autonom-e@elaros.com
Overview
The ME Association has funded a study led by Prof Sarah Tyson (who also has ME) from the University of Manchester, to develop a clinical assessment toolkit in collaboration with people with ME and clinicians in NHS ME/CFS specialist services.
The ME Association Clinical Assessment Toolkit (MEA-CAT) provides five assessment measures which you can use to load details about your health, from symptoms to functional capacity, to needs.
Four of five assessments are now available as a hardcopy or digitally, via the ELAROS platform. These are the CNAME, PASS, PREM-ME, and TIMES assessments. Our 5th “MEAQ” assessment is coming soon.
Digital versions available through ELAROS's autonom-e app
The ME Association’s toolkit was originally designed for use with ME clinical services, so it also includes a clinical needs assessment, and a patient reported experience measure (also known as a patient satisfaction survey).
Clinical services using ELAROS’ autonom-e platform can share the MEA-CAT with their patients to complete in a digital format through a mobile app, online, as part of a telephone interview, or on paper if necessary and uploaded to the patient’s digital record later, offering patients with alternative accessibility options and to avoid postage, printing and storage.
Accessing the app (public users)
- Download "autonom-e" from the app store.
- Click "Create a Personal Account".
- Create an account for free
- Complete assessments and access support resources
- Export and share reports with health professionals or relatives
Benefits
- Access the app without needing a referral into a service.
- Generate health reports to help interpret your scores and share with health professionals or relatives
- Keep a permanent digital record of your data on a personal device.
- Control who sees your data and share summary report.
Purchasing licencing on behalf of your patients (for clinics, employers and occupational health providers)
- Order licences from ELAROS at autonom-e@elaros.com.
- Receive redemption codes for the premium app
- Share with clients / patients
- Complete assessments, diaries, and view resources.
- Export and share reports with health professionals or relatives.
Testimonials
- “I would just like to thank you for doing this study. ME has had such a life-changing impact on my life and knowing that someone is trying to understand it better is really reassuring and makes me feel more hopeful”
- “I’m very pleased that somebody appears to at least be trying to improve the NHS services for pwME after I have experienced receiving so little help / support from the NHS for the last 20+ years. I am very grateful and hopeful for improvements”
- “I wish this would have been around in the early days of my experience with ME”
- “This questionnaire is perfect for capturing exactly what I have going on and what I need, thank you”
- “It is clear that this work is being done by people who properly understand ME and its impact. When there is so much written that is inaccurate, misguided, incorrect and corrupt it is actually a joy to know that someone understands”
- “I hadn’t made the connection before this between happy emotional situations and PEM! Thank you, that’s given me something to think about and factor in”
- “This questionnaire is really helpful for me to take another glance and break down how activity affects me, thank you”
- “I was really impressed with the relevance of the questions”
- “A good range of symptoms on this questionnaire. It does feel like someone understands our issues”
- “Thank you for this questionnaire. It feels that my symptoms are taken seriously”
- “Think it was very comprehensive, one of the best I have completed”
- “I was amazed at the range of questions completely relatable. It is like reading my own story”
- “Really excellent questions and options to answer. I can’t believe (after much medical gaslighting) how much this has described my symptoms and new life experience”
- “Just amazed how spot on the questions are it’s like a perfect summary to give to someone if they asked me what ME is and how it affects me”
- “Oh my goodness what an eye opener this survey is! I never knew all my strange symptoms could be attributed to ME! I’m glad I took part, I feel I’ve learned something useful”
- “I’ve found this really helpful to realise how many ways my illness affects me. It’s useful to have an overview and remind myself that the little I manage to achieve day to day is set against the backdrop of this illness”
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