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[Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <abyot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

We don't capture the additional data if DOB is approximated or not...

Otherwise, we have a value type called AGE, then during data entry a
special input field is rendered, see below

[image: Inline image 1]

Users are free to fill any or combination of these and behind the scene the
system calculates/updates each field and in the end DOB is saved.

--
Abyot A. Gizaw.
Senior Engineer, DHIS2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:21 PM, TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir <timimih@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
> Thanks very much, that makes sense. I also came across this yesterday
> which seems similar to what you have done in the past (see under
> "Collection and usage attributes"): http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/
> content/index.phtml/itemId/287007
>
> Cheers,
> Hazim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Robinson [mailto:erobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 October 2017 13:40
> To: TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir; dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Dhis2-users] Standard approach for recording age at the time
> of diagnosis when date of birth is unknown
>
> What we've done in the past with other systems is have a field for
> estimated age at time of registration - only completed if the DOB is not
> known.  DOB is then auto-populated based on the entered age, and an
> additional YES/NO field is updated to note that the DOB is estimated and
> not exact.
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dhis2-users [mailto:dhis2-users-bounces+erobinson=
> projectbalance.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2017 5:01 PM
> To: dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Dhis2-users] Standard approach for recording age at the time of
> diagnosis when date of birth is unknown
>
> Is there a standard approach commonly in use to handle ages when the exact
> date of birth of a patient is unknown? I can think of two ways -- either
> using a surrogate (approximate) date of birth that tallies with a person's
> reported age, or have an extra data element for age at time of diagnosis to
> be used only if date of birth is unknown. Obviously, if date of birth is
> known then age is calculated automatically.
>
> I would like to know what people have been using and have seen to be
> working in practice (and not necessarily just in DHIS2).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Hazim
> …..
> Hazim Timimi
> Data Manager, Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation, World Health
> Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Tel : +41 22 791 3468
>
>
>
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