Screening Questionnaires
athenaOne for Hospitals & Health Systems
This page allows you to select screening questionnaires for use in the Screening section of the patient encounter. You can use screening questionnaires to assess risk for, or severity of, disorders or conditions such as autism and depression. These questionnaires result in a score and often include guidelines and proposed treatment actions. You can track a patient's questionnaire results over time using the Graph link in the screening questionnaires flowsheet.
On the Main Menu, click Settings > Clinicals. In the left menu, under Practice Links — Exam, click Screening Questionnaires
You must have the Clinicals Admin permission to configure screening questionnaires. After you configure your screening questionnaires, anyone with permissions to edit the clinical chart can use the Screening section.
- Display the Screening Questionnaires page: On the Main
Menu, click Settings > Clinicals. In the left menu, under Practice Links — Exam, click Screening Questionnaires.
Your enabled questionnaires appear under "My Practice's Screening Questionnaires" while all available questionnaires appear under "All Available Screening Questionnaires." The Type column indicates whether the questionnaire is administered in athenaOne (Type is Full), or whether you enter the score for the questionnaire after the patient answers the questions offline (Type is Score Only). - Click preview to view a read-only version of a questionnaire.
Note: You cannot preview questionnaires with a Type of Score Only. - Click Return to Screening Questionnaires to return to the previous page.
- Click add to add a screening questionnaire to your practice's Screening Questionnaire list.
athenaOne adds the questionnaire for use at your practice. - Click edit next to a screening questionnaire to edit it.
Additional fields appear. - Display Name — The name that appears in the Screening section of an encounter. You cannot edit this name.
- Sex — Select the patient gender from the menu, or select Both if the questionnaire is used for both males and females.
- Age range — Enter a minimum and a maximum age for the patients who can complete the questionnaire.
- Specialty — Accept the default value, All, to allow all specialties to use this questionnaire, or click Selected and then select the specialties from the list.
- Note — Enter any notes about this questionnaire.
- Ordering — Enter a digit to specify the order of the questionnaire in the list that appears at the top of the Screening section.
- Click Save.
Note: You can delete screening questionnaires that you no longer use from your practice's list. After you delete a screening questionnaire, you can no longer add it to encounter layouts or encounter plans, and no patients can complete that questionnaire during an encounter. The questionnaire is still available to add from the All Available Screening Questionnaires list, and any previously completed questionnaires remain in the patient chart.
- Display the Encounter Plans page: On the Main Menu, click Settings > Clinicals. In the left menu, under Practice Links — History/Intake, click Encounter Plans.
- Click update next to the encounter plan that you want to update.
The details of the plan appear. - In the Encounter Plan Actions area, filter the templates list on the left by entering "SQ" in the filter list text box.
Only screening questionnaires appear. - Select the screening questionnaires to add to the encounter plan.
The screening questionnaires are added to the Selected list on the right. - Click Save to update the encounter plan.
You can add a screening questionnaire during the Intake or Review stage of an encounter.
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From the Intake stage of an encounter, click the Screening section in the checklist. From the Review stage of an encounter, scroll to the Screening section or click the Review down arrow and select Screening.
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From the Screening drop-down menu, search for and select the questionnaires that you want to administer. You can select multiple questionnaires to add to the encounter.
Your top five most frequently used questionnaires are listed alphabetically at the top of the Screening drop-down list under Most Frequently Used Screeners. The remaining screening questionnaires are listed alphabetically under Other Screeners.
When you complete and score a questionnaire, the proposed guidelines and treatment actions appear. You can also track a patient's questionnaire results over time using the Graph link in the screening questionnaires flowsheet.
For screening questionnaires administered in athenaOne, the username of the person who administered the questionnaire and the day and time it was completed are displayed below each completed questionnaire in the encounter and on any printed versions. (For score-only questionnaires, the username and time stamp are not displayed.) In the Screening section of the Vitals tab, the first and last name of the provider who administered the questionnaire and the date it was completed are displayed. This information is updated each time the questionnaire is modified and re-scored.
See the Available Screeners search tool to learn more about:
- Screening questionnaires available in athenaOne.
- New screening questionnaires added to athenaOne this year.
- Status of requested screening questionnaires — You can check whether a questionnaire has been requested and see if it is planned for a future release, under review, or not currently supported.
Display Name | Abbreviated name of the screening questionnaire. This text label appears at the top of the Screening section. |
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Full Name | Full name of the screening questionnaire. |
Note | Notes about the screening questionnaire usage. |
Case Number | A case number must be entered before any screening questionnaires that require a license can be copied into a practice's list. |
Ordering |
Digit that indicates the order of the questionnaire in lists of questionnaires. |
Specialty | Specialties that can use this questionnaire. |
Sex | Patient gender, if the questionnaire is gender-specific. Both indicates that the questionnaire is used for both males and females. |
Age |
Minimum and maximum age of the patients who should complete the questionnaire. Any indicates that the questionnaire is used for patients of all ages. |
Type | Type of questionnaire: Full indicates a questionnaire that is administered and scored in athenaOne; Score Only indicates that the questionnaire is taken offline and that only the score is entered in the Screening section of the encounter. |
SNOMED | SNOMED codes associated with this screening questionnaire. |
LOINC | LOINC codes associated with this screening questionnaire. |