After the Assessment
Understand your Outcomes tab
An empty Outcomes tab is the normal starting point. Here is what fills it, and what the tab shows at each stage on the way.
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Open Outcomes
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The patient's
Building toward
Change statistics
Latest scores
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Open Outcomes under Activity
An empty Outcomes tab is the normal starting point, not a fault. A reading is one completed assessment, and the change statistics on this tab need two of them on the same measure from the same patient. If you have sent assessments but no follow-ups yet, you will see counts and latest scores here, but no change statistics. If you have sent nothing yet, the tab shows a single quiet card. The tab sits under Activity.
No completed assessments to draw on yet.
Outcome statistics need a first and a later reading of the same measure for the same patient. Sending a follow-up to a patient you have already assessed is what makes this page fill in.
Send the same measure again
Outcomes needs a first and a later reading of the same measure for the same patient. Send a follow-up from the patient's page, or set up a recurring check-in so it goes out on a schedule you choose.
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The patient's second reading
Nothing changes at their end: the same link, the same pacing. Once that reading is in, the patient counts as a pair on that measure: their first reading and their latest.
Building toward change statistics
Below five paired patients, a measure sits in a quiet card called Building toward change statistics. Five dots show how many pairs it has so far, and each paired patient is listed with their dates and both scores. Nothing is calculated from them yet.
Building toward change statistics
Change statistics for a measure appear once five patients have a first and a later completed reading.
GAD-7
Lisa Simpson
12 Mar to 5 May · 2 readings
Bart Simpson
3 Apr to 28 May · 2 readings
K10
Ralph Wiggum
8 Apr to 30 May · 2 readings
Change statistics at five patients
The card draws each of those patients as a point, grouped into improved, within typical variation, or deteriorated. The Jacobson and Truax reliable change index decides which group, so a patient only lands in an outer group when their change is larger than the measure's own measurement error. The d and CI in the card's headline are the size of the average movement and how settled that figure is. The card carries this definition at its foot, so you do not have to remember it.
PHQ-9
Depression moved toward the non-clinical end (d 0.61, CI 0.22 to 1.00).
Caseload, first to latest reading
Improved · 3
Within typical variation · 1
Deteriorated · 1
n 5 patients
Latest scores on other instruments
Some measures never reach a change statistic, and that is by design. Screeners and many other measures have no published reliability figures, so no change between readings is calculated for them. They appear further down the tab, under a heading that says instruments, which means the same thing here. Each patient's latest reading sits on that measure's published score bands, ranges like Low Risk or High Risk.
Latest scores on other instruments
Each patient's most recent completed reading, whole practice.
2 of 9 measures shown
PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)
n 12Minimal 5 · Mild 3 · Moderate 2 · Moderately Severe 1 · Severe 1
AUDIT Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
n 10Abstinent 2 · Low Risk 4 · Risky 2 · High Risk 1 · Possible Dependence 1
At the top, what every number counts
At the top of the tab, a coverage strip splits your completed assessments into what these statistics could draw on and what they could not. Each bucket is counted directly, not estimated. Every section below states its own scope, so you always know whether a number covers the whole practice or only the assessments you sent.
Frequently asked questions
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Related guides
Reassess a patient
Send the same assessment again to track change over time — results show a before-and-after comparison.
View scored results
When a patient completes an assessment, scored results with severity bands and visual charts appear on your dashboard.
Send an assessment to a patient
Create a patient, choose an assessment, and share the link — scored results appear on your dashboard.
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