TABLE VIII.

Rules of the quality framework for BR TS

N.	Description
1	Use bed restlessness (uncountable) instead of BR values (countable) in the final description. Transform the quantifiers in the protoform to an uncountable counterpart (template 2a).
2	The description should emphasize abnormal sleep episodes (i.e., medium, high or very high BR). For low or very low BR use the default message given by template 2b.
3	Isolated peaks and sets of peaks (template 5) are relevant events during the night but only if their associated BR values are high or very high.
4	Only high volatility is relevant. Use with many fluctuations instead of the more technical expression with high volatility (template 4).
5	Discard descriptions of short features (less than 2 minutes of BR data).
6	Time and duration should always be shown in format hh:mm and hhh:mmm respectively and be rounded to the closest quarter for the templates 2, 3.2, 5 and 6. Template 5 shows the exact duration of the time out of bed in minutes.
7	A brief summary of the number of times that a resident has got out of bed, including time and duration, should appear at the beginning of the description, up to a maximum of five. A larger number must be replaced by simply many times (template 5).
8	Connectors between sentences must change from one sentence to the next. Several levels of connectors are established to avoid repeating them. Description of the last feature starts with In the last part (template 1).
9	Consecutive sentences with a similar description are combined. For instance, two consecutive sentences in the form: At the beginning of the night bed restlessness is medium and steady and In the middle of the night bed restlessness is medium and steady are merged into the sentence From the beginning to the middle of the night bed restlessness is medium and steady. If volatility is different, the sentence is merged anyway but volatility is established to the maximum.
10	When a statement qualifies a previous one in an opposite sense, connect both using the conjunction but. For instance: Bed restlessness is mostly high with a decreasing trend. is rearranged as Bed restlessness is mostly high but with a decreasing trend. There are three cases where this rule is applied:  • High BR with [sharply] decreasing trend.  • Medium BR with [sharply] increasing trend.  • Steady trend with many fluctuations.
11	Do not describe trend or volatility with low restlessness (use only template 2b).
12	Bed Restlessness is written only in the first sentence together with its acronym as bed restlessness (BR). The remaining cases it will be replaced by the acronym BR.
13	Volatility is not described with peaks and sets of peaks.