This appendix details the steps that must be undertaken in the Cúram Administration Application to configure an assessment that uses Cúram Decision Assist (CDA) to produce results that lead to activity recommendations for use in an outcome plan. As outlined earlier in this document, CDA is used when the rules associated with the assessment are not complex. CER is used for more complex assessments where the assessment logic may not be encompassed in the CDA decision matrix. In this example, you will be shown the steps that need to be followed in order to use a CDA based assessment with an outcome plan. These steps are the same regardless of the size and complexity of the IEG script used to capture the answers to the questions and the decision matrix used to determine the assessment results. Therefore, this example will employ a very straightforward IEG script consisting of a single page and question only, and an equally straightforward CDA decision matrix producing a single outcome based on the answer to the question posed in the IEG script. Neither the IEG script or the decision matrix are to be considered as something that could ever be employed in a real world situation. This example does not set out to describe how to use either IEG or CDA. Some information, relevant to the example, will be provided in the use of these tools, however for more detailed information please see the Cúram Working with Intelligent Evidence Gathering Guide and the Cúram Decision Assist Guide.
This example is based on an assessment used with a back to work type of outcome plan. The assessment is used to determine a client's basic literacy and child care needs.
The answer to the literacy question, "Are you able to read and write and do basic math?" either yes or no, is used to determine the type of activities that should be recommended to the client for literacy on their back to work outcome plan.
The answer to the child care question, "What best describes your child care situation?" is any of the following values, 'Child care not needed', 'Child care unaffordable', 'Child care unavailable, 'Child care is subsidized', which determines the type of activities that should be recommended to the client for child care on their back to work outcome plan.