Yes, you would have to add a column and store it like birthdate_estimated. You can open a ticket here: https://tickets.openmrs.org/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10000&issuetype=2&Create=Create and get people to vote on it. :-)
Ben On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Ssemakadde <[email protected]>wrote: > hi Ben and others > Well be back from the meeting > still on my issue of death date is there a way to differentiate the dates > that are estimated from those that are repored the way it is for brith > dates, does that mean one has to add deathdate_estimated to the person > table? how about on the interface > > Matthew > Masaka(Ug) > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Matthew Ssemakadde > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> hi Ben and others >> Well be back from the meeting >> still on my issue of death date is there a way to differentiate the dates >> that are estimated from those that are repored the way it is for brith >> dates, does that mean one has to add deathdate_estimated to the person >> table? how about on the interface >> >> Matthew >> Masaka(Ug) >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Yeung, Ada K. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> From the person table, get the number of dead=1 and the number of >>> death_date is not null**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Then,**** >>> >>> ( “Number of dead=1” – “Number of death_date is not null”) / “Number of >>> dead=1”**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> --Ada**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >>> Behalf Of *Mhawila Ahmedi >>> *Sent:* Friday, May 06, 2011 5:03 AM >>> >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Subject:* Re: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Dead Patients “growing” (age >>> changing)**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> How did you get the % Ada? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> On 05/02/2011 06:23 PM, Yeung, Ada K. wrote: **** >>> >>> In AMAPTH, about 3.3% patients are noted as deceased without date of >>> death information. Most of those cases were recorded during the beginning >>> of the implementation though. Thanks!**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> --Ada**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> *From:* [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] >>> *On Behalf Of *Ben Wolfe >>> *Sent:* Monday, May 02, 2011 10:32 AM >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Subject:* Re: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Dead Patients “growing” (age >>> changing)**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> The quick solution is to add an approximate death date. :-) If we made >>> death date required, this is what people would have to do to fill in the >>> form. >>> >>> *Question for everyone, not just Matthew:* How prevalent are records >>> that come in about a death but don't have a date? >>> >>> Ben >>> >>> >>> **** >>> >>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Mathew Ssemakadde <[email protected]> >>> wrote:**** >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I have an age range of <1-96 years but the patient with 96 years died >>> some time back but the system continues to calculate the age basing on >>> the birth date and system date, this is because this patient has no >>> death date recorded. For other patients who are dead and death date >>> recorded the system does calculate age basing on date of death to**** >>> >>> avoid dead patients “growing” is there a way to tag this so that one**** >>> >>> can not recorded a patient as dead without a death date (the way it is >>> for course of death ) >>> >>> Matthew >>> Masaka (Ug) >>> >>> _________________________________________ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to >>> [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the >>> body (not the subject) of your e-mail. >>> >>> [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]* >>> *** >>> >>> **** >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from >>> OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list >>> **** >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from >>> OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list >>> **** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> -- >>> Mhawila Ahmedi, **** >>> >>> >>> _________________ University Computing Centre - 'Professionalism, >>> Customer Care and Technological foresight' **** >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from >>> OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list >>> **** >>> ------------------------------ >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from >>> OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list >>> >> >> > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from > OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
