Following Thomas, I think for the missing descriptions you might need to
put "between x and y" if x and y are available descriptions.
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------ Original message------From: Thomas BealeDate: Tue, Apr 26, 2016 12:42To:
[email protected];Subject:Re: Ordinal values without
descriptions If you give someone a '3' on the Apparent Sadness scale, what
does it mean? Apparently it's between 'Looks dispirited but does
brighten up without difficulty' and 'Appears sad and unhappy most of the
time'.... So now imagine that this '3' appears for me in my record - just
that value. The scale doesn't tell you what it means. It probably should
have a value like 'Appears sad quite often' or similar. Instead, I would
see nothing at all, and maybe I would know to go online and try to
understand what 3 means by looking at the values for 2 and 4. Even in a
paper record, the problem is the same.
At a technical level, the RM will does require a DV_CODED_TEXT. So
one question is: considering that the set of texts for an ordinal is
actually a set of terms, what does the term set look like? It must be
value set with only 4 members instead of 7.
Personally I think that scale is not ready for use in paper or
electronic health record... - thomas
On 26/04/2016 11:59, Bakke, Silje Ljosland wrote:
Hi everyone, We’re
working on an archetype for the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating
Scale (MADRS). This scale contains several ordinal values where
there is no description, and some where there is no text at
all. This doesn’t work very well in archetypes, and particularly
when uploading to a CKM, because there’s an expectation that every
field should be filled in, and the CKM will replace empty fields
with * or sometimes *([language code]). Is there any way to get
around this? See here for what the MADRS looks like:
http://www.psy-world.com/madrs.htm
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