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Questionnaires

Overview

One large limitation in healthcare provisions is the lack of human resources for patients to make regular appointments. Patients may have difficulty getting to the clinic on their own, or depending on their health condition, may require more frequent check-ins than are available for optimal care. Digital health platforms can provide a critical assistive tool to fill this gap in resources, as well as communicate the information clearly and succinctly to both health care providers and patients.

One tool to track patient progress is through questionnaires, which can include multiple choice questions about mobility, medications, past medical history, and tasks. The Questionnaire module allows users to incorporate questionnaires based on the FHIR Standard in Spezi-based applications, that maintain healthcare standards and keep consistent data collection.

Features

We offer a variety of question types, including lists of questions, text input, image capture, sliders, date and time input, and number validation.

iPhone modal with sliding scale, asking "How bad is the pain on a scale of 0-10?"
Slider
three modals on an iPhone screen with scrollable times and dates. Last screen after the three modals indicates that the questionnaire is complete.
Date & Time
iPhone screenshot of an example of a text input area: "Enter your email address." Lelandstanford@stanford.edu is filled in.
Text input

Examples

Glasglow Coma Scale

The Glasgow Coma Scale is used to reliably measure a person's level of consciousness after a brain injury by asking a series of questions that testing eye, verbal, and motor skills.

A series of three multiple questions in modals on an iPhone.

Patient Health Questionnaire-9

This questionnaire assesses the frequency that patients experience certain depression symptoms.

One page of the questionnaire with 9 questions on an iPhone modal.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 7

This survey measures the severity of anxiety symptoms in patients.

List of survey questions on an iPhone Modal showing the 7 questions on the generalized anxiety disorder questionnaire

International Prostatism Symptom Score

This survey ask about severity of urinary symptoms and quality of life, in order to assess the severity of disease and progression of care.

International Prostate Symptom iPhone modal survey list.

Questionnaire Generation

Using Phoenix, you can generate your own custom HL7 FHIR surveys or upload an existing one that can be integrated into the app. You can test out Phoenix on the web platform here. 

GIF of the Phoenix site, which allows you to create a new survey or upload an existing one. User clicks the create a new survey option, which shows types of questions that can be added to the survey (date, multiple choice, text, etc.). User drags multiple choice block which expands and lets you write the question and answer choices.

Technical Resources

For developers, directly access the Spezi Questionnaire module and the issues page from here.

GitHub                     Ask technical questions on Github

ResearchKit and the ResearchKitOnFHIR packages are helpful packages for collecting medical data and creating FHIR questionnaires.

FAQs

Is this feature available for Android?

Yes! We have developed modules for compatibility on Android devices as well. For an overview of all of our Android-compatible features, refer to our GitHub page: Spezi Kt