GPAQ Touchscreen - Help and FAQs

GPAQ Touchscreen Instructions

Installation Instructions

Setup GPAQ for use in practice

Data Analysis

Demonstration Data

Installation Instructions
To open the CD from "My Computer" double-click the "my computer" icon on the desktop or select "My Computer" from the Windows start menu.

Select and highlight the CD drive, right click for the menu and select "explore". Double click the "Install GPAQ.exe" file.

This will open the installation program. Enter the case sensitive password code when requested. Check the box to accept the agreement and the program will continue. It is recommended that you accept the default installation procedures unless you are an experienced computer user. The program installation will complete itself automatically and when you click Finish the GPAQ folder will be displayed.

If you do not have a copy of the A5 instruction booklet open the GPAQ Touchscreen 2009 menu within the Programs menu on the start button and print the A4 Word document "Instructions".

Setup GPAQ for Use in Practice
You now need to use the configuration Wizard to personalise the questionnaire for your practice. Double-click the "Setup Wizard" icon in the GPAQ Touchscreen 2009 menu to run the program.

Select the "Change Staff Names" personalisation wizard by clicking the adjacent box and follow the on-screen instructions.

"Practice ID": This is the name or number you want to use to identify your practice on the questionnaire.

"Staff member": Title and name: You will enter here each member of staff's name as it will appear on the page in the questionnaire for the staff member to be identified for the questionnaire. (Press clear to empty the box)

Results Code: This is any ID code you wish to use to identify by code the staff member in the results file, which will be available for analysis. The staff members' names do not appear in the results files.

Additional staff members are added as required. (Remember to turn the "state" ON for the staff member to be added).

SAVE these details for the questionnaire to be ready for use in your practice. You can now run the questionnaire by selecting GPAQ Touchscreen from the GPAQ Touchscreen 2009 menu within the Programs menu.

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Data Analysis
The data analysis requires data to be transferred from the data file to the analyser Excel workbook.

This is achieved by opening the data file and leaving it running (minimised). While it is running start the GPAQ Analyser workbook.

From the start menu select "Programs" then "GPAQ Touchscreen 2009" then "GPAQ Data". The data file will appear. Minimise this chart by clicking the underline box in the top right-hand corner of the screen. Then, again from the start menu, select "Programs" then "GPAQ Touchscreen 2009" then "GPAQ analyser". The analyser program will start. It will update its data for analysis and will display.

The analyser program opens with the "Printable document" of the results document.

According to the filter settings that you make on the "Printable Document" (click the tab at the bottom of the screen if necessary) either the data from the whole practice will be analysed, or data from those staff members that you select by entering their code on the filter table or data from the specific responder groups which you select on the filter table will be totaled and displayed.

The "Printable Document" clearly displays the results from the questionnaire in a combination of pie and bar charts and tables, which are ready for immediate printing, presentation and discussion. Go to print preview in the file menu and you will see the document as it is to be printed. To print the results document select "print" from the file menu or click the "print" icon on the toolbar.

The data may also be viewed on the pages with tabs labeled "PIES" or "BARS" which show the specific charts. These have been created so that you may select your own charts for other documents and include them by copying and pasting.

If you select the "setup" tab on the print preview page (from the file menu) for the selected chart you can change the appearance of the chart by changing the orientation from "landscape" to "portrait". (Select the image by clicking on it so that the borders around the image are marked with small cubes and then click print preview on the file menu).

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Demonstration Data
To try out the website downloadable basic analysis program run the program from the file which you saved to disk. This installs three icons on the desktop labeled "raw data", "data analyser" and "Uninstall Excel demo". Start the "raw data" file by double-clicking the icon. When the chart of data appears, minimise the window. Then start the data analyser by double-clicking its icon on the desktop. The data will be imported and the front page displayed. The effect of the filter will be seen by typing in doc1 or doc2 or doc3 (without a space) in the filter box and pressing the "enter/return" key. (Watch the age structure bar chart as you press the "enter/return" key). The 2009 GPAQ Analyser has many more features which are developments from the basic analysis program.

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Extra Questions
There are templates for four styles of touch-screen question pages to allow you to create your own questionnaire for the touch-screen. This gives you your own paperless questionnaire. You will have to analyse the results yourself from the data that will be entered in columns in the excel data file (Additional data) which is found in the GPAQ Touchscreen 2009 menu.

This image shows one of the extra question configuration screens:

The following image shows how the question which has been configured above will appear on the questionnaire screen:

Bespoke questions could be designed for practices or PCT/LHBs. The development of these would be subject to individual price quotations depending on the complexity of the questions, answers and analysis required.

If you have any questions which have not been answered by the help pages above please feel free to contact us at support@gpaq-touchscreen.co.uk

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