I see no harm in adding a "test" property on person. How would that be used by the app? The user would have to specific if/when they are wanting to exclude the test patients. (e.g. have to specify which reporting queries or patient searches are not just tests)
Ben On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Michael Seaton <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > There is a pending ticket in the reporting module (REPORT-143 - Add > option to exclude Test/Fake Patients from running > queries/reports<https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/REPORT-143>) > for supporting this in the reporting module. > > The planned design is to allow for a saved cohort definition to represent > the cohort of test patients (this allows for test patients to be defined as > a given implementation wants). Then, the reporting module would exclude > these patients from any query / report that it produces. > > That being said, I wouldn't be at all opposed to some sort of "test" > column on the person table... > > Mike > > > > On 03/28/2012 09:35 PM, Burke Mamlin wrote: > > This has come up before. While I can imagine a module trying to make test > patients behave as if they're voided, we should probably make this a core > feature (marking persons/patients as test). As Ada points out, a person > attribute can serve very well as a way of tagging test patients for > exclusion from reports. > > -Burke > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Yeung, Ada K. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> AMPATH creates a person_attribute_type of test patient. Whenever we >> create new test patients, we tick the test patient person_attribute_type on >> the dashboard. When it’s time to generate reports or prepare datasets for >> research studies, we can exclude those test patients easily. >> >> >> >> -ada >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Joaquín Blaya >> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:16 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Labeling patients as test in a >> production instance of OpenMRS >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way to have test patients in a production version of OpenMRS >> that allows them not to be counted in statistics e.g. some kind of label? >> >> >> >> The idea is that in a production server you can have a handful of test >> patients and a test form so that when people start to learn it they can use >> those. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joaquín >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems <http://www.ehs.cl/> >> Research Fellow, Escuela de Medicina de Harvard <http://hms.harvard.edu/> >> Moderador, GHDOnline.org <http://www.ghdonline.org/> >> > > ------------------------------ > 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]
