Instructions for Interpretation and Use of CMAS output. cmas = "Course Map and Statistics" The cmas is "the big picture" of a period of treatment. On first look, it's horrendous, but if you work with this and practice with some cmas output, you'll find that the cmas is a very powerful tool which can make it easier for you to get your head around a kid's treatment and/or to get quickly lots of statistical data. Bring up a cmas page (see below) and practice as you read this key. Getting a CMAS page: open the abr mining page canned output choose the report: cmas choose a kid from the 'limit' menu set the date range NOTE: If you set a start date before the date of admission, or an end date after the date of discharge (or "today") the averages and totals will still be correct. You can find out the date of admission which will appear immediately next to the DOT '001'. If you gave an end date after the day of discharge, the day of discharge will be the last date shown. If you gave an end date after "today", the last date shown will be "yesterday" because we assume that the data for "today" (points, notes, incidents) have probably not been entered into the log system. click on view THE BIG PICTURE OF THE BIG PICTURE There are column headings above and below the data. These start: DOT DATE SCHOOL etc. Each line/row across the page represents one day. The main point of these lines/rows is that they give a graphical picture of the course of treatment and they show how events and changes are related over time. In general, positive thingy's are toward the left. The more (or less) positive thingy's, the better (or worse) the kid is doing. Negative thingy's are toward the right. The more (or less) negative thingy's, the worse (or better) the kid is doing. Ideally as treatment progresses one would expect to see a shift from more thingy's on the right to more on the left. The cmas lines may show shifts in relationship to various events (family contact, therapy, changes in medication). Also, one can use the cmas lines to identify key events quickly and then go looking (roll your own) for the lognotes relevant to those days. INTERPRETING A LINE: We'll discuss the data for a day by the columns. DOT: This is the 'day of treatment'; The number of days since admission. DATE: The date of the line/row's data. A date followed by a '.' is a weekend day. SCHOOL: These are school points; each 's' = 5 points. Max is 5 s's = 25 points. COTTAGE: These are the cottage points; each 'c' = 5 points Max on school days = 15 'c's = 75 points. Max on non-school days = 20 'c's = 100 points. Note: weekends (with the '.') are automatically nonschool days. days with more than 75 points are nonschool days. days with no '.' and less than 75 points, can't tell days with '---- -------' are No points assigned days without anything mean the score was '00/00'. ACTIVITY: 'A' = 30min of theraputic recreation 'a' = 30 min of regular recreation. 'c' = 30 min of community service (CS) NOTES: '.' is one plain lognote 'N' is one note from one staff to another 'n' is one note addressed to the kid 'P' is a note by the group's Program Director 'p' is a note by another program director, the Director or other mucky_mucks (hi supervisors and therapists) therapist notes are only included here if they have no minutes of therapy. CONTACT/HELP 'C' = The child had "family" contact logged by therapist 'c' = The child had "family" contact logged by non-therapist Note: "family" means also: CW, CASA, lawyer, PO, Sponsor 'T' = 10 minutes of therapy (ind or grp) by therapist. 'F' = same but therapy included family work 't' = 10 minutes of coaching 'f' = same but coaching was family related MED Not implemented. If/when implemented, this column should show general level and degrees of changes in medications. CRIT Each digit represents a critical incident: 2=awol, 3=injury, 4=property damage, 5=other Only 4 incidents max can be shown RSRNT This column shows restraints. Each digit is the number of a restraint. Thus, 1 is the first restraint of the day, 2 is the second... If one digit is shown, the restraint was less than 10 min If the digit is followed by one 'x', the restraint was 10-20.min. Ifthe digit is followed by 2 'x's, the restraint was 20-30 min. If the digit is followed by 2 'X's, 30-45 min If followed by 2 'Z's, restraint was over 60 minutes. Note: Each restraint can only use 3 spaces max. The maximum spaces to show restraints is 9. Thus you could have a max of 3 60 min restraints, or a max of 9 three minute restraints. GROUP The first 2 digits are the number of the cottage. 1 PV, 2 SP, 3 ML, 4 CC, 5 LS, 7 HC, 8 HR The next two characters are the initials of the cottage PD. TOTALS AND AVERAGES These are found at the bottom of the page under the related column. The statistics are correct regardless of whether the displayed/graphed characters/values are truncated or rounded. The general form is: name=value (on the same line). OR: name value (That is, if no '=', value is under name) Names: '#' is for 'number' or 'incidences of' 'avg' is for averages Under ACTIVITY: RXhr is hours of theraputic rec CShr is hours of community srvc Under CONTACT/HELP: RXhr is hours of therapy CHhr is hours of coaching Under GROUP: The value on the first line is the average notes/day by the PD of the cottage (past and present for the time period. The value on the second line is the number of groups the kid has lived in. Once you know what statistics the cmas supplies at the bottom of the page, you can get a specific total or average by just running the cmas for the date range you want. Thus you can use the cmas to quickly count for you something like the number of restraints during a 3 month period. CMAS FOR COTTAGES or ALL RANCH The cmas can be run by selecting a cottage or "All(cmas _only)" from the "Limit" menu. This can produce some very useful information for comparing cottages.