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[Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <abyot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

We will try to update the documentation :)

As to the issue you refereed, it is a new one and most of us here haven't
looked into it before... Nonetheless, looking into the requirement
mentioned there - I think introducing the concept of age there will
probably over complicate things. What is required seems to capture a static
figure - and defining a simple data element of type number will handle that.

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

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:23 PM, TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir <timimih@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> [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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