> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.liveclin.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Avoid mistakes
> The mistakes that break weekly follow-up questionnaires and the maintenance routine: quarterly review, editing without losing history, and versioning.
The mistakes below show up often and each has a known fix. After them comes the maintenance routine that keeps the questionnaire healthy over the months.
## What not to do
| Mistake | Why it breaks things | Fix |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Turning the weekly questionnaire into an intake form, with more than 20 questions | Abandonment and careless answers | Cut it to 8 to 12. The rest goes to the appointment |
| Giving individual feedback every week | Drains you, creates dependency, devalues your feedback | Feedback at the appointment. Contact in between only via the [four triggers](/en/boas-praticas/ler-respostas#the-four-triggers-that-justify-contact-before-the-appointment) |
| Opening the questionnaire up to questions | It becomes support with a 48h delay and frustrates the patient | An explicit, repeated usage agreement |
| Making photos and weight required | High answering cost, low reward, demotivating result | Always optional. Photos biweekly or monthly |
| Changing questions or scales often | Destroys the historical series | Review every 90 days, with versioning |
| Using judging words | Underreporting on the most important topics | Descriptive, neutral language |
| Nagging about filling it in every week | Raises the cost of staying in the follow-up | Explore the non-response at the appointment, with curiosity |
| Reading "didn't answer" as "isn't adhering" | They're different things. Some patients answer everything and don't adhere, and the reverse happens too | Treat a non-response as a question to ask |
| Comparing patients by score | The scale is subjective and within-person | Compare the patient with themselves |
| Asking what you won't use | It costs the patient's attention and changes nothing | The decision test. If nothing changes, cut it |
## Review every 90 days
Set aside an hour a quarter and apply these pruning criteria:
* **Zero variance:** everyone always answers the same thing. The question discriminates nothing. Cut it or rewrite it.
* **Never used:** you've never once cited that data in an appointment. Cut it.
* **High skip rate** on the optional questions: a sign of high cost or confusing wording.
* **Open answers revealing a misunderstanding:** if the patient answered about something else, the wording is ambiguous.
## How to edit in LiveClin
The platform locks editing and deleting questions once the questionnaire is saved, to preserve history and charts. You have three routes:
* **Hide:** clear the **Show** option. The question disappears for respondents and the entire history is kept.
* **Actually edit:** duplicate the question, edit the copy, and disable the original, leaving **Show** cleared.
* **Add:** new questions can go in at any time, with no restriction.
Because of the editing lock, always use the **preview** before saving. It shows the questionnaire exactly as the patient will see it, including the result screen.
## Versioning
Name your questionnaires with a version and a date: "Weekly review v2, 2026". When you create a new version, note what changed and why. Six months from now, when you look at a chart with an odd break in it, you'll know that's where the question changed.
## Next steps
Data minimization, consent, and scope limits.
Step by step for building, weights, and preview on the platform.