Build a Scored Assessment Instrument

Who / when: an administrator or clinical lead builds a scored assessment instrument once; clinicians, nurses and physiotherapists then perform it on patients. A scored assessment is a standardised clinical questionnaire — a depression screen, a coma scale, a falls-risk or functional score — where each answer carries points, the points add up to a total, and the total falls into a band that says what it means. Veona lets you build these yourself, with no code: define the questions, how they score, and how to read the total. Once built, the instrument is available to every clinician and scores itself.

Key terms: a parameter is one scored item (one question). A weight is a multiplier on a parameter’s score, for instruments where some items count more than others. A band is a range of total scores with an interpretation label — for example “5–9 = Mild.”

Create the instrument

1. Administrator — open Assessments → Instrument Library. This is where the no-code scored assessment templates are authored.
2. Press the New Instrument button and fill the header:
   • Code — a short, stable handle in capitals (for example PHQ9). It cannot be changed later, so choose well.
   • Name — the full title (for example Patient Health Questionnaire 9).
   • Category — pick from Physiotherapy, Neurology, Mental Health, Functional, Pain, Nutrition or General.
   • Sign Required — tick this if every performed assessment must be eSigned by the clinician (the eSign PIN is the clinician’s 6-digit electronic signature, separate from their password).

Add the scored parameters

For each question, add a parameter and set how it is answered and scored:

1. Yes/No — a simple Yes (counts as 1) or No (counts as 0).
2. Number within a scale — a number the clinician enters between a minimum and a maximum you set.
3. Select — a list of named options, each carrying its own score (for example Not at all = 0, Several days = 1, More than half the days = 2, Nearly every day = 3).

Give each parameter a weight (leave at 1 for equal weighting; raise it where one item should dominate the total) and a label the clinician will read. The total is the sum of each parameter’s score × weight.

Set the interpretation bands

A score on its own means little until you say how to read it. Add score bands:

1. Min Score and Max Score — the range this band covers (the maximum is inclusive).
2. Label — what to call it (for example Minimal, Mild, Moderate, Severe).
3. Interpretation — optional clinical guidance shown with the band.

When a performed assessment’s total lands in a band’s range, that band’s label is what gets stamped on the saved assessment.

Press Save. Veona confirms the instrument is saved and it becomes available to perform.

Note

Bands are optional. An instrument with no bands still computes and stores the total — you just won’t get an interpretation label. Add bands whenever the score has a recognised meaning.

Caution

There is no conditional or branching logic — every parameter you add is required when the assessment is performed. And editing a template later does not re-score assessments already saved against it: each saved score and band is a snapshot taken at the moment it was performed.

What happens next

The instrument is live in the library. Any clinician, nurse or physiotherapist can now pick it on Assessments → Perform Assessment and score it on a patient — with the total and band worked out for them.

Follow the trail

• Next: Perform a Scored Assessment at the Bedside
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