How Melo equates severity levels between assessment types

Melo contains multiple assessment types for capturing agitation, each with their own severity scale. To simplify severity analysis across multiple assessment types Melo ‘equates’ these severity levels enabling a more holistic view.

Assessment severity scales

The following table outlines how each Melo assessment scores severity based on the entered data.

Assessment name

Severity levels

ABS

Normal (0-21), Mild (22-28), Moderate (29-35), Severe (36-56)

ABC Plus

1-16

ABC

Absent / near miss, Mild, Moderate, Severe

OASMNR

1-16

SASBA

1-16

Melo severity levels

The following table shows how each assessment maps it’s own severity level to Melo’s ‘equated’ severity level.

Melo severity level

Mapped assessment severity levels

Minimal

ABS Normal

OASMNR, SASBA, & ABC Plus scored 1-4

ABC Absent / near miss

Mild

ABS Mild

OASMNR, SASBA, & ABC Plus scored 5-8

ABC Mild

Moderate

ABS Moderate

OASMNR, SASBA, & ABC Plus scored 9-12

ABC Moderate

Severe

ABS Severe

OASMNR, SASBA, & ABC Plus scored 13-16

ABC Severe