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> On 5 Jun 2017, at 08:44, William Goossen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Directeur Results 4 Care BV
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>> Op 5 jun. 2017 om 08:25 heeft [email protected] 
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>>  1. Re: Questionnaires (Grahame Grieve)
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>> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 15:59:26 +1000
>> From: Grahame Grieve <[email protected]>
>> To: For openEHR technical discussions
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>> Subject: Re: Questionnaires
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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 <
>> [email protected]> 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-
>>> [email protected]] *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 <[email protected]> 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
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 31 May 2017, at 06:54, Pablo Pazos <[email protected]> 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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>> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 06:24:50 +0000
>> From: Heather Leslie <[email protected]>
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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:[email protected]] 
>> On Behalf Of Grahame Grieve
>> Sent: Monday, 5 June 2017 3:59 PM
>> To: For openEHR technical discussions <[email protected]>
>> Cc: For openEHR clinical discussions <[email protected]>
>> 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 
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>  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:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
>>  On Behalf Of Pablo Pazos
>> Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:58 AM
>> To: For openEHR technical discussions 
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>> 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 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> 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>
>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>> 
>> On 31 May 2017, at 06:54, Pablo Pazos 
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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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