On Do, 2015-11-26 at 09:48 +0000, Simon Lewington wrote:
> I'm considering whether it would be possible to use sdaps for a
> project recording hospital Patient Opinion Survey data.
> 
> Questionnaires are filled in weekly by patients. Currently the
> results are manually recorded in Excel by an administrator.
> 
> As well as the multiple choice questions on the form we also need to
> record the patient hospital number, name and the date the form was
> completed.
> 
> I've considered including a unique ID on the blank questionnaire when
> printed, but this has been rejected since practitioners need to be
> able to pull out a blank form from a stack and hand to a patient
> rather than finding the specific patient's form.

As Walter already suggested, doing some manual processing might be the
best choice right now. I would include static data (Hospital Number) in
the "Global-ID" barcode. The date would likely then be a text field
that needs to be typed off.

> I'm hoping that the 'Additional Questions' option
> (http://sdaps.org/Documentation/Missing#Additional_Questions) would
> do what I need. However although I've found setup_tex
> additional_questions being loaded from a text file
> in additionalparser.py, I can't obviously see anything in add which
> would allow me to associate answers to the questions with a scan.

These do not help you with the issue. Basically it is solely a way to
include more questions in the report.

Hm, though, one might even use that mechanism to an extend, but it
probably does not help with the workflow.

> Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

I would say:
 * Hosiptal: Global-ID
 * Patient/Identifier: Type this off or barcode sticker
 * Date: type off or process by date

For the date what you could also do is to simply process the scans one
day at the time. You are going to export the data from SDAPS anyways,
so you can then just process the forms from all hospitals for one day
in one SDAPS project directory, export the data, and add a date column
to it.

Depending on how the hospital is organized (I assume you have a binder
for each bed anyways), you could even consider having a sheet with
barcode stickers at the patients bed. Just stick the barcode sticker on
the field, and SDAPS could read it automatically instead of typing off
the data manually[1]. If the barcode sticker is not available, it can
be filled in by hand instead and manually processed.

Regards,
Benjamin

[1] Not currently implemented, but really easy to add feature.

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