Outcomes are program decisions defined by the agency, such as different levels of risk for a risk assessment carried out by child protective services agencies, or benefit rates for an income support program.
In Decision Assist, such outcomes are set up in the Administration application and can then be added to the matrix. There are two ways in which outcomes can be determined and hence two configuration methods are required:
To support the first method, the outcomes are added to the matrix directly along with answer combinations. For the second method, scores are assigned to answers in the matrix and outcomes are configured for different score ranges outside the matrix. More information on the method of determining outcomes for a determination-based assessment is available in section 5.4.