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.

image-20230210181455928

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.

image-20230210181412785

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.

image-20230210181425556

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.

image-20230210181930612

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.

Export/Download and Form Rendering

In the top bar there are three buttons offered, the usual raise-an-issue button, and especially for Questionnaires the Download and the Render button.

image-20230620145425084

Clicking on the download button allows you to export the ART-DECOR Questionnaire as a FHIR Questionnaire. It opens a dialog that shows the available FHIR endpoints (version) of the Project and a format switch.

image-20230620145709908

The Render button opens a new window that shows the rendered form. It uses the LHC Formsopen in new window rendering machine from the Nation Library of Medicine. Later you can choose between two different rendering machines.

image-20230620145902029
Last Update:
Contributors: dr Kai U. Heitmann, Rogier Wiertz