Editing/Creating a New Assessment

CALM allows you to edit an existing assessment or create a new assessment from the scratch.

Creating a new assessment

Select File->New. You will first presented with the available assessments in the connected database. CALM connects to your Oracle database during startup and remains connected till you exit. At this points you will see a dialog box like below;

To work o a brand new assessment that is not available in the database, press Cancel button. You will see the following dialog

You provide the name of the assessment and press OK. You will see the assessment tree in the assessment layout pane of the main screen,
populated with the assessment node and two mandatory fields, namely Date and Time of the assessment.

Adding/Editing scores, subscores, score codes and assessment items

For the assessment tree popup-menu, you first select a tree node and right click to show to popup menu.
Some of popup menus are context sensitive, e.g. their behavior depends on the tree node selected , Update updates the attributes of the selected assessment, score or subscore.

Add Score

Use this popup menu option to add scores. For the first level scores, first select the assessment name node which is the root node of the assessment tree. (For example, in the screenshot above you have first level scores GAIT, Arm Dropping, Shoulder Shaking, Elbow Rigidity and Cogwheeling. Cogwheeling has second level scores (subscores). For second and higher score levels (subscores), first select the parent score node under which the subscore will be created.

In the New Score dialog specify the score name, score type and security classification.

Add Subscore (No longer available)

Use this popup menu option to add second and higher level of scores to an assessment. For this select first select the parent score node, right click and select Add Score Codes from the popup menu. You will see a New Score dialog box as shown above.

Add Score Codes

Use this popup menu option to add score codes to a score. As a convenience, you will be asked if you want to select and use some of the text entered in the form layout pane.

If you have pressed Yes button, select Tools->Select Components or (Alt - S) and press the left mouse button outside of the text display component(s) you want to select and drag the mouse till the rubber band totally includes them and release the button. You will see a dialog box
like below populated. Otherwise you press Add Score Code Button to add new empty score codes, and enter score code and score code value
fields.
Note: Please make sure that, you have pressed Enter or selected a different score code row, if you are editing the last row, otherwise your last edit will be lost, because of the way event mechanism works in a Java Swing table component).

Add Assessment Item

Use this popup menu option to add an assessment item (question text) for a score to your assessment. For that, select a score node in the assessment tree and right click and select Add Assessment Item from the popup menu. You need at least specify the Leading Text (the main question body). CALM will ask if you want
to select text from the form layout view to populate the Leading Text portion of the Add Assessment Item dialog. Select the 'Remember Answer' check box if you
want CALM to not show this dialog box for each question.

If you answer yes, press Alt-S to enter the Selection mode. Then, press the left mouse button outside of the container/ display component(s) you want to select and drag the mouse till the rubber band totally includes the container / display component(s) you want to select and release the button. The color of the selected container/ display component(s) will change to blue. The Add Assessment Item dialog box will be populated with the selected text.

Another trick to avoid retyping the question is, first double click on the text display component corresponding to the question,
to show the text properties, select the label field and copy the content into the clipboard by selecting the text and pressing Ctrl-C. They you invoke Add Assessment Item, and paste the content by pressing Ctrl-V inside the Leading Text.

Update Assessment Item (added at 3/28/2005)

Use this popup menu option to update an existing assessment item (question text) for a score of the assessment you are preparing.

Properties

Use this popup menu option to view the attributes of an score (score name, type, score sequence etc).

Update

Use this popup menu option to edit an existing score, subscore or assessment attributes. For that you select the desired assessment tree node, right click and select Update from the popup menu. Update updates the attributes of the selected assessment, score or subscore.

Update Score Codes

Use this popup menu option to edit existing score codes, remove and/or add new score codes.

Delete Score

You can only delete leaf scores, i.e. scores without any subscores of themselves. To delete a score with subscores, start deleting from the deepest subscore and delete all its siblings and so on. Select the leaf score you want to delete, right click and select Delete Score from the popup menu.

Change Assessment Name

Select this popup menu item to rename the clinical assessment edited.