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[Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

The user manual is not clear on this topic, partially because the
nomenclature is mixed up - the term "deactivated" is used synonymously with
"canceled". For me, "canceled" has a different intuitive meaning than
deactivated, but both terms do not clearly convey if the data for all
practical purposes are "softDeleted". When something is softdeleted, it is
marked as deleted (and thus excluded from all analysis and reporting)  but
not physically removed from the database.

If you deactivate a TEI enrollment, it becomes "read-only" - the data
remains, but you cannot add or edit it further. That is fine - the question
is whether such deactivated data is automatically excluded from all program
indicators and other reporting tools?

If deactivated TEI enrollments are NOT excluded - how can I differentiate
between active and deactivated enrollments when designing program
indicators?

The background for this is disease surveillance, where some notifications
are found to be incorrect (the disease turned out to be something else
which is NOT notifiable) - managers want to "deactivate" or else tag such
notifications as "de-notified", BUT they also want to keep the data in the
system and now and then analyse the composition of such "de-notified" cases
to for instance identify needs for better training of clinicians on
identifying certain diseases.

Regards
Calle

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