Black blobbing

"Black Blobbing" is the filling in of circles on the TISS form completely with a black marker. It is a mandatory quality assurance that the collectors must do. No colored pens.

This is done by the data collector on the FIRST 10 DAYS of TISS. (will change with TISS28Template:Discussion) Purpose is to quality check the the forms, and secondly to make sure form bubbles on are filled in clearly and cleaning.

The scanning program Teleform will not detect circles that are not filled completely with a sufficiently dark marker. Since it is impossible to control how bedside staff fill out the form, or for data collectors to gauge accurately what the scanner will be able to recognize, the has mandated that all TISS forms must have their filled circles “black blobbed” fully with a marker prior to handing in for scanning.

Here is an example of part of a TISS form when pencil is used: example.-TOstryzniuk 15:20, 3 December 2008 (CST)

Is this necessary

Fred, from your work in setting up the new TISS28 form, do you think this is necessary as a rule, or is it enough if especially faint forms are "blobbed"? Might be able to save some time here? Ttenbergen 18:21, 2012 November 8 (EST)

this is a big workload for collectors because for TISS28 it will be for entire LOS to black blobb every day of TISS. I want them to stop doing it for TISS28, if staff use Dark HB pencil, don't need to reblob ever circle. Reason this was started because scanner was having problem picking up anemic marks. Trish Ostryzniuk 18:57, 2012 November 8 (EST)