Routes

Routes through the interview

A route is a named set of questions drawn from the complete interview which it might be helpful to ask or review sequentially. At any stage of an interview, a different route may be installed as current from the Route Explorer.

The Route Explorer behaves exactly like the Interview Explorer, except that it displays only the questions which lie on the currently installed route (and the section and subsection folders which contain them).

The 3di provides a substantial number of pre-defined Routes, and many of these select the questions which contribute to the making of one or another diagnosis – for example, the ASD_brief Route selects the questions which constitute the 3di’s rapid assessment for ASD. The provided Routes are referred to as System Routes. You can also create your own Custom Routes.

A red subsection or section icon in the Route Explorer tells you that there is at least one unanswered question on the route; conversely, when all the route questions are answered or disabled, every icon will be green regardless of the status of any questions not on the route.

Opening the Route Explorer

click the button on the ribbon:

or press <Ctrl + Shift + R> (think of R-oute)

Installing a route

choose a route from the Choose route dropdown
- you will be taken directly to the first unanswered question on the route, or to the first question if all questions are answered
you can install a different route as often as you like during the course of a single interview
closing the Route Explorer removes the current Route and the associated highlighting of questions

Moving along a route

To move to the next question on the route, click the button on the ribbon

or press <Ctrl + Shift + D> (think of forwar-D).

To move to the prior question on the route, click the button on the ribbon

or press <Ctrl + Shift + B> (think of B-ack).

Completing a question with <Tab> or <Enter> will as usual take you to the next question in the interview, rather than to the next question on the route.

System Routes

Numerous System Routes are built in to the 3di. Of these, only a handful are commonly used for assessments of autism spectrum disorder and are described below. The questions on these routes are the basis of the ASD scoring tables which appear in Reports. In the most typical usage of the 3di for ASD assessments, you will choose one of the routes below, answer only those questions, and focus on the corresponding report components.

The names and content of the routes were revised in 2023. Choose the relevant section below.

2021 version and before

The ASD_brief and ASD_extended routes are the basis of the table in Word reports named Autism Spectrum Disorder subscales, which applies ICD-10 scoring criteria.

In the brief report – when you click the button Report ASD_brief – the table draws on the 61 questions of the ASD_brief route.
In the full report – when you click the button Report (with ASD_extended) – the table draws on the 134 questions of the ASD_extended route.

There are also two longer route variants +DSM-5 containing additional questions which enable the DSM-5 scales for ASD tables to be populated in the reports. Those tables apply the DSM-5 scoring criteria.

2023 version and later

Starting with 3di versions in 2023, the ASD_brief and ASD_extended routes come in two variants, one for each of the diagnostic criteria ICD-10 and DSM-5.

The new ASD_brief (DSM-5 Crit A+B) route corresponds to the DSM-5: ASD brief assessment table in Word reports. The new ASD_extended (DSM-5 Crit A+B) route corresponds to the DSM-5: ASD extended assessment table in Word reports.

The questions, routes and reporting tables for the ICD-10 criteria are present and unchanged from previous 3di versions, although the routes have been renamed to make the scoring criteria explicit: ASD_brief (ICD-10) is the old ASD_brief, and ASD_extended (ICD-10) is the old ASD_extended. The old reporting tables can still be generated, but you will have to opt-in to include them in your reports. Note that according to national guidlines the ICD-10 criteria are now considered to be superseded by DSM-5/ICD-11, and the the older routes are marked as obsolete.

The routes ASD_brief+DSM-5 and ASD_extended+DSM-5 have no equivalent in versions of the 3di from 2023 and later. Those routes combined questions from ICD-10 and DSM-5, which are now treated separately.

Custom Routes and the Route Editor

Custom Routes behave exactly like the provided System Routes. They appear in all the dropdowns from which Routes can be chosen, and so can be used from the Case Manager to create Route Reports and PreEntry forms, as well as being chosen in the Route Explorer form when an interview is open.

Custom Routes can be used for everything from creating a version of a diagnostic System Route (such as ASD_brief) which adds off‑route questions you routinely like to complete through to a Route with a handful of questions whose responses you like to copy and paste into a final Report from a Route Report.

To create or modify a Custom Route open the Route Editor from Main Menu 🡪 Utilities 🡪 Create and edit Routes.

You specify your Route by ticking or unticking questions in the Selected column. By choosing from the dropdown at the top of the form you can start with:

no questions selected – choose No route
the questions of a System Route selected – choose any of the Routes listed as system in the third column of the dropdown
the questions of a Custom Route selected – choose any of the Routes listed as custom in the third column of the dropdown

Find questions you want to add to (or remove from) your Route, and review your current selection, by using the buttons at the head of the first and last columns.

Toggling the Qid button sorts the questions by their question ID, rather than their interview order. Toggling the Selected button sorts the questions by whether or not they are included on the route.

Both edited Custom Routes and edited System Routes can be saved as new Custom Routes.

If you started from a Custom Route, the Save changes to Route button will replace it with your edited version.

System Routes cannot be modified – but edits can be saved as a new Custom Route by clicking the Save as new Route button.

The Route Manager

The Route Manager enables you to delete custom Routes, rename them and edit their brief descriptions. Open the Route Manager from Main Menu 🡪 Utilities 🡪 Manage Routes.

Select a Route by clicking in the left margin of the corresponding row in the table. Its name and description are copied to the editable fields in the bottom section of the Route Manager. You can then edit those details and use the buttons to Save or Abandon your changes, or use the Delete button to remove the Route.

Note than whenever you save a new Route from the Route Editor you are taken automatically to a simplified version of the Route Manager which limits you to editing the temporary name and description assigned by the 3di.

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