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[Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Agree with Lars. I would use orgunits to represent the departments/wards as
it gives you more flexibility. It will require more customisation time to
get all the orgunit names right in each hospital, but it is worth it, at
least if you want to support data analysis and mangement at each hospital.

Sometimes the hospital prefers to use local names on wards, like Cot ward
A. Cot ward B, up/down etc and also have more than one physical ward/room
for the same type/category.  A standard naming scheme through data element
categories would be difficult to use in this case.

Typically a hospital would like to do analysis by each physical ward (bed
occupancy rates etc) and not always group them together by type of ward.

You can use orgunit groups to apply standard hospital departement names to
all those wards,  which can then be used for aggregation when doing
analysis above the hospital level or when comparing hospitals.

Ola
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On 31 Oct 2013 09:32, "Lars Helge Øverland" <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Marta,
>
> I don't know enough about the use-case to be sure. However my suggestion
> would be to use the organisation units to represent the departments. It is
> simply because usually the departments are different across hospitals -
> some are not always there, some are combined and so on. So you could make a
> script that creates the initial setup with all departments in all places
> and then modify it from there. It makes form design easier. The data mart
> performance penalty mentioned above applied at the time of writing but not
> anymore with the analytics engine. A problem with using categories is that
> you get lots of non-applicable fields if you use section forms, and lots of
> maintenance mess if you go with custom forms.
>
> cheers
>
> Lars
>
>
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