Question

I need to convert a medical questionnaire into an online version. I have looked at Surveyor1
, but the issue with mine is that there a lot of different “tests” or “exams” that require precise answers. For example, if the questions are about blood tests, then the user needs to enter measurements. Should I just model each test or exam separately, or is there a smarter way to do this? I would say that about half are simply yes/no/unknown type questions, and the half require entering measurements. Thank you

Answer 1

We had a similar issue when creating a customer survey system for a client. Our issue was that the client needed the ability to create survey’s on their own in the future – meaning anything we implemented couldn’t be hard coded like you mentioned as an option for you.

In our case, while there were a couple of different scenarios they would encounter, it really wouldn’t change all THAT much – it really boiled down to number answers, text answers, ranges, etc…

We added a “style” field to our questions model and implemented validations based on the style that was selected for it. So a “number” question would check for numerical answers, etc… We also implemented the validations client-side using js, just so they’d have more upfront info on if their answers were sufficient (time saving seems important in a medical application). It worked well for our needs – hopefully it’ll point you in the right direction.