Reports

Word Reports are generated for the currently displayed patient from the buttons in the sage-coloured reporting section of the Case Manager:

You cannot generate a Report while the interview is open, nor for a patient who has never been interviewed.

Report principles

From a single interview, the 3di can generate several kinds of reports as Word documents. Most of the time you will use the Full report.

The structure of each kind of report is fixed, and is filled in as completely as possible given the questions you have answered. This may leave parts of the report empty or incomplete. These parts can be deleted or simply ignored.

In normal clinical use, picking the appropriate route in the Route Explorer will allow you to complete just the necessary questions for that single assessment, thus populating the corresponding report components. See The four ASD assessments for details of the routes relating to autism.

If you generate a report without answering any questions, the result will be structurally complete but clinically uninformative — containing only placeholder notes explaining why scores could not be calculated. For clinical validity, you should complete all questions on the route relevant to your chosen assessment.

Repeating a report

• If you use a report button to repeat the generation of the corresponding report, the new material will be appended to the existing document, so that you can see the effects of any interview responses you may have added or changed without the risk of overwriting any editing you might have done of the original document. This can be confusing! By selective deletion, or copying and pasting elsewhere, you can quickly reduce the doubled-up report to preserve what you need from each part.

• The most recent content in a report will always be at the end — so go straight there if you’re looking for the effects of adding or changing interview responses.

• If you delete or rename an existing report file, then a new document with the standard name is created when you repeat the generation of the report. If you want to discard the old report completely and create a new one from scratch, the quickest way is to delete the existing report file, then hit the button to create a new one.

Finding reports

To find a patient’s reports (and to see other 3di outputs relating to the patient, including the Notes file), use the Find dropdown in the Case Manager to move to the patient’s record, then click the Go to documents folder button.

Remember that the buttons which generate reports do exactly that: they’re not the way to find existing reports!

Notes in reports

If you took any notes during the interview, these will be included in the report underneath the relevant section. For example if you made notes on questions in the DSM-5 ASD extended route, they will appear underneath the DSM-5 Extended Assessment table.

Any notes also remain in the separate notes document, which you may edit and print separately if desired.

Editing Word Reports

Once a Report has been generated it has no further dependency on the 3di – you can edit it freely, rename, copy, move or delete it.

The 3di reports can be navigated, pruned and reordered using the tree of headings in the documents. In Word, open the Navigation Pane: find this under the View ribbon, in the Show group. Click on Headings in the Navigation Pane. You can then:

• go to any heading by clicking on the heading

• see or hide the sub-headings of a heading by clicking on the triangular icon at the heading’s left

• see or hide all sub-headings by right-clicking over any text in the navigation tree and choosing Expand All or Collapse All

• delete a heading and all the document content belonging to that heading by right-clicking on the heading and choosing Delete

• move a heading and all the document content belonging to that heading by dragging the heading to a new position in the navigation tree.

In Reports you may want to remove from tables the columns listing omitted questions or similar material. You can use the Edit report preferences button in the Case Manager to ensure that such columns simply do not appear when the Full Report and Brief Report are generated. However, you might want to remove the columns selectively from just some tables. Columns are easily eliminated like this:

• while editing the document in Word, move the mouse pointer to the head of the unwanted column until the pointer assumes the appearance of a bold black stubby downward pointing arrow

• right-click to open a context menu

• choose Delete Columns.

The Full report

The full report is the principal and usual report that you will generate after running an ASD assessment in the 3di.

A Word document is generated and saved in the child’s documents folder. The file name is based on the child's case ID — a child with case ID 000031 will have a report named Report_000031.

The Word document should open within a few seconds, but sometimes instead you will see a flashing Word icon in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen which you will need to click to make visible. Note that it takes some time for the report to be written, during which you may see the report content being actively composed. It is important not to interfere with Word until the report generation is completed.

Some of the report content depends on your 3di version. The 3di version number is shown in the title bar of the software while running, and also appears in the bottom left of every page in any report you generate. The first two digits of the version number denote the year, so for example 251219a is the version from 19 December 2025.

The Brief report

The brief report is a short document containing only the scoring tables from the brief assessment(s) for ASD (see The four ASD assessments). All information about other disorders, and any qualitative information you captured concerning the child's developmental history and so on, are excluded.

A Word document is generated and saved in the child’s documents folder. The file name is based on the child's case ID — a child with case ID 000031 will have a report named Report_000031.

The Word document should open within a few seconds, but sometimes you will see a flashing Word icon in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen which you will need to click to make visible. Note that it takes some time for the report to be written, during which you may see the report content being actively composed. It is important not to interfere with Word until the report generation is completed.

Some of the report content depends on your 3di version. The 3di version number is shown in the title bar of the software while running, and also appears in the bottom left of every page in any report you generate. The first two digits of the version number denote the year, so for example 251219a is the version from 19 December 2025.

Comorbidities summary

A Word document is generated and saved in the child’s documents folder. The file name is based on the child's case ID — a child with case ID 000031 will have a report named Comorbidities_000031.

The Word document should open within a few seconds, but sometimes you will see a flashing Word icon in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen which you will need to click to make visible. Note that it takes some time for the report to be written, during which you may see the report content being actively composed. It is important not to interfere with Word until the report generation is completed.

The document covers whatever comorbidities you specify in the Comorbidities dialog.

Including ICD-10 scores

Since 2022, the ICD-10 elements of ASD reporting only appear in the report if you have first selected the option Case Manager → Edit report preferences → ICD-10 ASD.