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[Marta Vila <martavila@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Lars, Ola,

it really seems the best approach.  I will keep it in mind. I remember
struggling in India with department names and so on... and it was really a
headache, better to falicitate it as much as possible.

And categories... i preffer to save them for its "actual" use... since
gender and age are very likely to be requested in forms...

thanks again!
cheers


On 31 October 2013 10:07, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> ------
> 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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