Questionnaire

Tree View on Questionnaires and Responses

All Questionnaires of a Project are shown as usual in a Navigation Card to the left of the Questionnaires Panel (under Scenarios). All Questionnaires are listed alphabetically, associated Questionnaire Responses are shown as child items of the Questionnaire.

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The Tree can be filtered, completely expanded or collapsed and the menu item offers to create a new Questionnaires (starting from scratch), or to Transform an already defined Project Transaction into a Questionnaire.

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NOTE

If your project has not defined any FHIR services (see Project Overview - Services) then the following dialog invites you to defined such a FHIR service for your project.

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The Details Card on the right shows the usual metadata for versionabel objects and a table reflecting the hierarchical list of the Items of the Questionnaire Definition. The list can be expanded or collapsed.

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Groups are shown with a folder icon, items are arranged with an icon indicating their Questionnaire item type.

Questionnaire Item Types

The first level distinguished between:

Item TypeIconExplanation
GroupART-DECOR undefinedAn item with no direct answer but should have at least one child item.
DisplayART-DECOR undefinedText for display that will not capture an answer or have child items
QuestionmultipleAn item that defines a specific answer to be captured, and which may have child items. The answer provided in the QuestionnaireResponse should be of the defined datatype.

A Question can express expectations of the Question Types.

Item TypeIconExplanation
BooleanART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a yes/no answer
DecimalART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with is a real number answer
IntegerART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with an integer answer
DateART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a date answer
Date TimeART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a date and time answer
TimeART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a time (hour:minute:second) answer independent of date
StringART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a short (few words to short sentence) free-text entry answer
TextART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a long (potentially multi-paragraph) free-text entry answer
UrlART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a URL (website, FTP site, etc.) answer
ChoiceART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a Coding drawn from a list of possible answers (specified in either the answerOption property, or via the valueset referenced in the answerValueSet property) as an answer
Open ChoiceART-DECOR undefinedAnswer is a Coding drawn from a list of possible answers (as with the choice type) or a free-text entry in a string
AttachmentART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with binary content such as an image, PDF, etc. as an answer
ReferenceART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a reference to another resource (practitioner, organization, etc.) as an answer
QuantityART-DECOR undefinedQuestion with a combination of a numeric value and unit, potentially with a comparator (<, >, etc.) as an answer.
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Contributors: dr Kai U. Heitmann, Rogier Wiertz