A new experimental trial is being carried out with a new drug that treats arthritis. Half of the patients will be treated with the drug and half with a placebo.
Data will be recorded as follows:
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Patients first & last name (text)
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ID number(Alphanumeric)
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Placebo (Y/N)
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Movement score(Physician assessed on scale 1-5)
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Pain score (patient assessed on scale 0-5)
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Inflammation (None/Low/Medium/High)
Create a new spreadsheet with the following columns:
Firstname
Lastname
IDno
Placebo
Movescore
Painscore
Inflammation
Use the data validation feature to ensure that all fields are filled in with the correct range/type of data.
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Is it possible to ensure that cells are not left blank?
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Try out Date validation, just add another column for an Assessment date.
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Give helpful feedback messages if data is input incorrectly.
Test your sheet by entering some made-up data ; can you break your sheet?