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[TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir <timimih@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Abyot,
 
Interesting, thanks. I wasn’t aware of the value type called AGE within DHIS2. I tried to find some documentation for this at https://www.dhis2.org/documentation  but couldn't see anything. I only found references to it on Github and also on the 2.26 release notes (https://www.dhis2.org/226). It doesn't explain what to do if you only know approximate age in years, not whether the reference date is the data entry date or the report/event/diagnosis date (if data entry is post hoc). I see this is already reported as a request in JIRA (https://jira.dhis2.org/browse/DHIS2-2345). 
 
Cheers,
Hazim  
 
 
 
From: Abyot Asalefew Gizaw [mailto:abyot@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 11 October 2017 15:02
To: TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir
Cc: Edward Robinson; dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Standard approach for recording age at the time of diagnosis when date of birth is unknown
 
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

 

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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
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Hazim Timimi
Data Manager, Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Tel : +41 22 791 3468



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