The examples given as Glasgow Coma Scale and Barthel index are definitely NOT 
questionnaires. These are assessment scales and require quite a different 
approach than the also extremely useful questions and answers.

Vriendelijke groet,

Dr. William Goossen

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> From: Grahame Grieve <grah...@healthintersections.com.au>
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> hi Heather
> 
>> A generic question/answer pattern is next to useless - interoperability
> is really not helped
> 
> I think you should rather say "A generic question/answer pattern is only
> useful for exchanging the questions and answers, and does not allow re-use
> of data". This is not 'next to useless for interoperability', just not fit
> for any wider purpose
> 
> Grahame
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Heather Leslie <
> heather.les...@oceanhealthsystems.com> wrote:
> 
>> Following Thomas? suggestion re a separate thread:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I wrote a blog post in 2014 which still reflects our current thinking re
>> questionnaires: https://omowizard.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/the-
>> questionnaire-challenge/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Our experience is that the data is the priority and so we want to focus on
>> questionnaires to support capture of good quality data.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you want to try to capture data from the majority of existing
>> questionnaires then good luck ? questionnaires notoriously ask questions
>> badly, conflating multiple concepts into one question, Boolean True/False
>> when there are other ?shades of gray? etc. They work variably as far as
>> human interpretation but usually very badly wrt computer interpretation.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We do have experience in taking previous paper questionnaires, analysing
>> the data requirements sought in terms of what we want to persist and then
>> we design the UI/questions to match the data desired and/or suggesting the
>> UI might show a questionnaire but each question the clinical data is
>> actually recorded using core archetypes ? for example ?Do you have
>> diabetes?? ? ?Yes?, is recorded using the value ?Diabetes? in the
>> EVAL.problem_diagnosis and ?No? is recorded in the matching exclusion
>> archetype. This creates real clinical data that can be used as part of a
>> health record rather than create an electronic checkbox version of the
>> original paper questionnaire which will never be used again, but capture
>> dust in our EHR?s virtual archives.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In summary:
>> 
>>   - A generic question/answer pattern is next to useless -
>>   interoperability is really not helped, especially if both the question and
>>   answer has to be managed in the template. We have tried many variations of
>>   this in the past, some of which were uploaded into CKM and subsequently
>>   rejected.
>>   - Lock in those questionnaires that are ubiquitous, evidence based,
>>   validated as OBSERVATION archetypes and share them in the international CKM
>>   ? eg AUDIT, Glasgow coma scale, Barthel index, Edinburgh post natal
>>   depression scale ? there are many examples in CKM.
>>   - Lock in local questionnaires that are going to be reused in your
>>   organisation, region or jurisdiction even though they may not be reusable
>>   elsewhere. They will provide some interoperability even if might only be
>>   appropriate within one clinical system or national CKM. An example is the
>>   Modified Early Warning Score/National Early Warning Score ? there are a few
>>   different variations used in different locations and whether they should
>>   all be in the international CKM is still not clear.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> BTW Questionnaires should be modelled as OBSERVATIONs (ie evidence that
>> can be collected over and over again using the same protocol) not
>> EVALUATIONS (as they are not meta-analysis nor summaries).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Heather
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> *From:* openEHR-technical [mailto:openehr-technical-
>> boun...@lists.openehr.org] *On Behalf Of *Pablo Pazos
>> *Sent:* Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:58 AM
>> *To:* For openEHR technical discussions <openehr-technical@lists.
>> openehr.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: Reports - a new openEHR RM type?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Besides specific ways to model questionnaires, my questions is if our
>> openEHR clinical modelers have a pattern to represent questionnaires using
>> the openEHR information model.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:37 AM, GF <gf...@luna.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> There are several kinds of context archetypes/templates and their
>> meta-data are used for:
>> 
>> - de novo data - re-used data
>> 
>> - step in the clinical treatment model (observation, assessment/inference,
>> planning, ordering, execution)
>> 
>> - kind of interface it is designed for (data presentation on a screen,
>> data capture, database store/retrieve, CDSS, ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Each Template needs to capture all this and is a Composition.
>> 
>> All these contexts are characteristics of a Composition in the end.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Questionnaires are in essence a tool that classifies information.
>> 
>> And sometimes it transforms a set of responses into an aggregated
>> value/code
>> 
>> The questionnaire can be treated as any classification, meaning we need to
>> de fine inclusion and exclusion criteria,
>> 
>> and possible results per question can be a quantitative result (number,
>> PQ, code), or a semi-quantitative result (high, low), or a qualitative
>> result (present/ not present).
>> 
>> Semi-Qualitative results need, inclusion/exclusion criteria and a
>> definition of what the norm/population is is about (females, children, etc.)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gerard Freriks
>> +31 620347088 <+31%206%2020347088>
>> gf...@luna.nl
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 31 May 2017, at 06:54, Pablo Pazos <pablo.pa...@cabolabs.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Thomas,
>> 
>> Thinking about the hierarchy, at which level will be a Report be? Below
>> compo? Below entry? Structure? Representation?
>> 
>> OT: many asked me this and didn't had a good answer. Do we have a pattern
>> to model questionnaires? Some require to define questions, and the answer
>> type in most cases is boolean, or coded text (multiple choice), and answers
>> might be 0..* (more than one answer for the same question is valid).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Pablo.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Thanks Grahame, but I disagree.
> 
> ??          A generic question/answer pattern is next to useless - 
> interoperability is really not helped, especially if both the question and 
> answer has to be managed in the template.?
> 
> The complete sentence qualifies that the dependence on template modelling is 
> the issue wrt interoperability. This is where a generic pattern is made 
> specific for a given questionnaire or data set. Also that we have found there 
> are multiple generic patterns, none of which is universally applicable and so 
> to create multiple generic patterns becomes nonsensical.
> 
> In the templating scenario it is only if the exact same template is shared 
> (where every question has been renamed and associated value sets inserted) 
> that can we get any value. In our experience it is of higher value to create 
> an archetype that can at least be shared locally and explicitly models the 
> precise question/answer combo in order to achieve better reuse.
> 
> Heather
> 
> From: openEHR-clinical [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On 
> Behalf Of Grahame Grieve
> Sent: Monday, 5 June 2017 3:59 PM
> To: For openEHR technical discussions <openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org>
> Cc: For openEHR clinical discussions <openehr-clini...@lists.openehr.org>
> Subject: Re: Questionnaires
> 
> hi Heather
> 
>> A generic question/answer pattern is next to useless - interoperability is 
>> really not helped
> 
> I think you should rather say "A generic question/answer pattern is only 
> useful for exchanging the questions and answers, and does not allow re-use of 
> data". This is not 'next to useless for interoperability', just not fit for 
> any wider purpose
> 
> Grahame
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Heather Leslie 
> <heather.les...@oceanhealthsystems.com<mailto:heather.les...@oceanhealthsystems.com>>
>  wrote:
> Following Thomas? suggestion re a separate thread:
> 
> I wrote a blog post in 2014 which still reflects our current thinking re 
> questionnaires: 
> https://omowizard.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/the-questionnaire-challenge/
> 
> Our experience is that the data is the priority and so we want to focus on 
> questionnaires to support capture of good quality data.
> 
> If you want to try to capture data from the majority of existing 
> questionnaires then good luck ? questionnaires notoriously ask questions 
> badly, conflating multiple concepts into one question, Boolean True/False 
> when there are other ?shades of gray? etc. They work variably as far as human 
> interpretation but usually very badly wrt computer interpretation.
> 
> We do have experience in taking previous paper questionnaires, analysing the 
> data requirements sought in terms of what we want to persist and then we 
> design the UI/questions to match the data desired and/or suggesting the UI 
> might show a questionnaire but each question the clinical data is actually 
> recorded using core archetypes ? for example ?Do you have diabetes?? ? ?Yes?, 
> is recorded using the value ?Diabetes? in the EVAL.problem_diagnosis and ?No? 
> is recorded in the matching exclusion archetype. This creates real clinical 
> data that can be used as part of a health record rather than create an 
> electronic checkbox version of the original paper questionnaire which will 
> never be used again, but capture dust in our EHR?s virtual archives.
> 
> In summary:
> 
>  *   A generic question/answer pattern is next to useless - interoperability 
> is really not helped, especially if both the question and answer has to be 
> managed in the template. We have tried many variations of this in the past, 
> some of which were uploaded into CKM and subsequently rejected.
>  *   Lock in those questionnaires that are ubiquitous, evidence based, 
> validated as OBSERVATION archetypes and share them in the international CKM ? 
> eg AUDIT, Glasgow coma scale, Barthel index, Edinburgh post natal depression 
> scale ? there are many examples in CKM.
>  *   Lock in local questionnaires that are going to be reused in your 
> organisation, region or jurisdiction even though they may not be reusable 
> elsewhere. They will provide some interoperability even if might only be 
> appropriate within one clinical system or national CKM. An example is the 
> Modified Early Warning Score/National Early Warning Score ? there are a few 
> different variations used in different locations and whether they should all 
> be in the international CKM is still not clear.
> 
> BTW Questionnaires should be modelled as OBSERVATIONs (ie evidence that can 
> be collected over and over again using the same protocol) not EVALUATIONS (as 
> they are not meta-analysis nor summaries).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Heather
> 
> From: openEHR-technical 
> [mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@lists.openehr.org<mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@lists.openehr.org>]
>  On Behalf Of Pablo Pazos
> Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:58 AM
> To: For openEHR technical discussions 
> <openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org<mailto:openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org>>
> Subject: Re: Reports - a new openEHR RM type?
> 
> Besides specific ways to model questionnaires, my questions is if our openEHR 
> clinical modelers have a pattern to represent questionnaires using the 
> openEHR information model.
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:37 AM, GF <gf...@luna.nl<mailto:gf...@luna.nl>> 
> wrote:
> There are several kinds of context archetypes/templates and their meta-data 
> are used for:
> - de novo data - re-used data
> - step in the clinical treatment model (observation, assessment/inference, 
> planning, ordering, execution)
> - kind of interface it is designed for (data presentation on a screen, data 
> capture, database store/retrieve, CDSS, ?
> 
> Each Template needs to capture all this and is a Composition.
> All these contexts are characteristics of a Composition in the end.
> 
> Questionnaires are in essence a tool that classifies information.
> And sometimes it transforms a set of responses into an aggregated value/code
> The questionnaire can be treated as any classification, meaning we need to de 
> fine inclusion and exclusion criteria,
> and possible results per question can be a quantitative result (number, PQ, 
> code), or a semi-quantitative result (high, low), or a qualitative result 
> (present/ not present).
> Semi-Qualitative results need, inclusion/exclusion criteria and a definition 
> of what the norm/population is is about (females, children, etc.)
> 
> 
> Gerard Freriks
> +31 620347088<tel:+31%206%2020347088>
> gf...@luna.nl<mailto:gf...@luna.nl>
> 
> On 31 May 2017, at 06:54, Pablo Pazos 
> <pablo.pa...@cabolabs.com<mailto:pablo.pa...@cabolabs.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> Thinking about the hierarchy, at which level will be a Report be? Below 
> compo? Below entry? Structure? Representation?
> OT: many asked me this and didn't had a good answer. Do we have a pattern to 
> model questionnaires? Some require to define questions, and the answer type 
> in most cases is boolean, or coded text (multiple choice), and answers might 
> be 0..* (more than one answer for the same question is valid).
> Cheers,
> Pablo.
> 
> 
> 
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