Hi Simon, a) I understood 'hospital number' differently, rather than the hospital's numer, which of course would go into the barcode to be an individual number within the hospital, then the text field would be appropriate.
b) Benjamin is right concerning the date. Where date is crucial, we stamp all incoming questionnaires like this [image: Inline-Bild 1] That specific stamp ( http://www.stempel-fabrik.de/reiner-paginierstempel-mit-datum.html) is divided 6digits/date. The first 6 digits advance each time the stamp is pressed onto the paper (you can choose if you have to press it once or two, etc times using the same number, we use once). Using machine-readable sheets, we just write down the starting and ending numbers for each date on a piece of paper. When we have to type in the questionnaires (non-machine-readable) we type in the number ans use it as ID. All the best, Walter. 2015-11-26 11:35 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Berg <[email protected]>: > 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.
