RE: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread Bakke, Silje Ljosland
, Silje From: openEHR-technical [mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of pazospa...@hotmail.com Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 2:20 AM To: Thomas Beale ; openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org Subject: Re: Ordinal values without descriptions Following Thomas, I think for the

Re: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread pazospablo
penehr.org;Subject:Re: Ordinal values without descriptionsIf you give someone a '3' on the Apparent Sadness scale, what does it mean? Apparently it's between 'Looks dispirited but does brighten up without difficulty' and 'Appears sad and unhappy most

Re: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread Thomas Beale
On 26/04/2016 19:54, David Moner wrote: I will not discuss about the readiness of that particular scale. But un general words, we are very accustomed to scales where you have to answer "From 1 to 10, score your satisfaction with the service provided, with 1 meaning 'not satisfied at all' and 1

Re: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread Ian McNicoll
I would tend to agree with the suggestion to model this as a DV_COUNT rather than a DV_ORDINAL. Ian On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 at 19:54, David Moner wrote: > I will not discuss about the readiness of that particular scale. But un > general words, we are very accustomed to scales where you have to answe

Re: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread David Moner
I will not discuss about the readiness of that particular scale. But un general words, we are very accustomed to scales where you have to answer "From 1 to 10, score your satisfaction with the service provided, with 1 meaning 'not satisfied at all' and 10 meaning 'completely satisfied'". I guess th

Re: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread Diego Boscá
Technically speaking it is in fact possible to create an alternative of two different data types in a given attribute (say for example in your use case, DV_ORDINAL (1,low) , DV_COUNT (2), DV_ORDINAL (3,medium), DV_COUNT (4), DV_ORDINAL (5,high)). In any case I agree with Thomas that this scale prob

Re: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread Thomas Beale
If you give someone a '3' on the Apparent Sadness scale, what does it mean? Apparently it's /between /'Looks dispirited but does brighten up without difficulty' and 'Appears sad and unhappy most of the time' So now imagine that this '3' appears for me in my record - just that value. The sc

RE: Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread Sebastian Garde
but avoid empty texts in archetype terms, using the ordinal value as a minimum) Regards Sebastian From: openEHR-technical [mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Bakke, Silje Ljosland Sent: Dienstag, 26. April 2016 12:59 To: openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org Subject:

Ordinal values without descriptions

2016-04-26 Thread Bakke, Silje Ljosland
Hi everyone, We're working on an archetype for the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). This scale contains several ordinal values where there is no description, and some where there is no text at all. This doesn't work very well in archetypes, and particularly when uploading to a