# Clinical scales - ordinal or coded text?

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**Category:** Clinical\
**Tags:** modelling-patterns\
**Created:** [20 May 2020 14:53 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/clinical-scales-ordinal-or-coded-text/709 "2020-05-20T14:53:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [22 May 2020 10:41 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/clinical-scales-ordinal-or-coded-text/709/5 "2020-05-22T10:41:25Z")

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> [@ian.mcnicoll](#):
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> Grade 1 to Grade 4

Actually such response options are textual values.

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