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). One
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.
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.
