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.
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Dr. William Goossen
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Why?
What are the arguments?
Gerard Freriks
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Hi William,
I can concede that for those examples.
Honestly I'm not particularly fussed about categorisation of the examples and there are plenty of examples which use a question/answer format with a total score at the end, so it is not clear if we should call it a questionnaire or a scale.
The principles that I've laid out remain the same.
Regards
Heather
I’m not so sure about this s but here we go:
I don’t think that the question/answer format of a record really defined that is indeed a questionnaire. Sometimes that is just due user interface design.
If the record needs modeling question definitions and their possible answer types or answer alternatives, that might be indeed a questionnaire.
In the other hand, if the records don’t need the question definitions, just the content definition e.g. entries, that mighty be a normal clinical record.
If we don’t consider this, anything can be defined as a questionnaire, and that would be a useless generalization for both software development and Interoperability. And in some cases would be incorrect, for example questionnaires AFAIK don’t contain time series data or maintain state of ongoing talks (both examples are related with time related data).
This topic is a good conceptualization exercise!