Arthur, Why not have a single data element for Diabetes Mellitus
with category option combination (Inpatient/Outpatient)/(ear infection acute, ear infection chronic etc etc etc) and only have certain data element/category options in the IP form and certain data element/category options in the OPD form? Regards, Jason On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Arthur Heywood <arthurheyw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mahundi et al > Can we not apply this to OUR Tanzania data elements, which have different > data elements for IPD and OPD , acute and chronic > Working with different data elements with same meaning is driving me MAD > e.g. 70 (or more) examples such as > > Diabetes Mellitus (ear infection acute, ear infection chronic etc etc etc ) > in OPD > Diabetes Mellitus ( etc) in IPD > > Why can we not have the same disease in two separate datasets?? > Is it not possible to combine these? > Regards > Arthur > On 16 September 2011 14:22, Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> This is totally possible. You may have the same data element being >> collected on two separate aggregation forms. Instead of creating two >> data elements to represent the same thing, you just need to place the >> same data element in two separate datasets. If you have "Total >> attendance" at both the Hospital and Health center level, then you >> might have two sepererate datasets (Hospital and PHC), with some data >> elements which are different, some which are common. >> >> Best practice is to try and consolidate as many data elements as you >> can across the different service levels, as in practice, we have seen >> that they may be named differently at different service levels, but >> actually represent the same occurrence. >> >> Regards, >> Jason >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Muhire Andrew <muhireand...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> > Dear team, >> > I can see its possible to link one data element to two or >> > more >> > different dataset, Did this affect anything? eg one data element exit >> > in >> > both District Hospital and Health Center? can this affect the database? >> > Data >> > entry? is it practical? >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > >> > Muhire Andrew >> > HMIS/Ministry of Health >> > andrew.muh...@moh.gov.rw >> > God is my provider. >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Lars Helge Øverland <larshe...@gmail.com> >> > To: nsanzumuhire venuste <vensa...@yahoo.fr> >> > Cc: Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com>; Muhire Andrew >> > <muhireand...@yahoo.com>; >> > "dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net" <dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net>; Ola >> > Hodne Titlestad <ol...@ifi.uio.no>; "dhis2-d...@lists.launchpad.net" >> > <dhis2-d...@lists.launchpad.net> >> > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:30 AM >> > Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Re : Dear Dhis2 users how can i delete? >> > >> > Hi, >> > most operations are cached at the database layer so when doing manual >> > database operations outside dhis you will need to either restart the >> > application or clear the cache by going to "adminstration" -> "cache >> > statistics" and clicking "clear cache". >> > >> > Lars >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> > Post to : dhis2-d...@lists.launchpad.net >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > Quality is not an act .... It is a Habit (Aristotle) > Skype arthur_heywood_za > Tanzania +255-773-669393 > SA +27-769405494 > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
