Starting with some definitions. These are not universal, but I’m using the words this way in this post: Clinical score: A multi-component clinical assessment tool that involves summing up the numerical values of a set of more than one component. Example: NEWS2 Clinical scale: A clinical assessment…

[image] vanessap: From my perspective and usage from the both classes you mentioned I prefer to use the DV_ORDINAL for scales instead of DV_CODED_TEXT/DV_TEXT. The current tools I use allows to make immediate calculations of total scores if using ordinal for each element, plus the option the sho…

Clinical scales - ordinal or coded text?

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linforest (Lin Zhang) 22 May 2020 10:41 5

Actually such response options are textual values.

Clinical Frailty Scale (OBSERVATION.clinical_frailty_scale)