That’s neat, nice.

From: Abyot Asalefew Gizaw [mailto:ab...@dhis2.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2017 3:02 PM
To: TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir <timi...@who.int>
Cc: Edward Robinson <erobin...@projectbalance.com>; 
dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net
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

[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 
<timi...@who.int<mailto:timi...@who.int>> 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:erobin...@projectbalance.com<mailto:erobin...@projectbalance.com>]
Sent: 11 October 2017 13:40
To: TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir; 
dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net<mailto:dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net>
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

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 On Behalf Of TIMIMI, Hazim Bakir
Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2017 5:01 PM
To: dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net<mailto:dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net>
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<tel:%2B41%2022%20791%203468>



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