Thank you Lars, Ola, it really seems the best approach. I will keep it in mind. I remember struggling in India with department names and so on... and it was really a headache, better to falicitate it as much as possible.
And categories... i preffer to save them for its "actual" use... since gender and age are very likely to be requested in forms... thanks again! cheers On 31 October 2013 10:07, Ola Hodne Titlestad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Agree with Lars. I would use orgunits to represent the departments/wards > as it gives you more flexibility. It will require more customisation time > to get all the orgunit names right in each hospital, but it is worth it, at > least if you want to support data analysis and mangement at each hospital. > > Sometimes the hospital prefers to use local names on wards, like Cot ward > A. Cot ward B, up/down etc and also have more than one physical ward/room > for the same type/category. A standard naming scheme through data element > categories would be difficult to use in this case. > > Typically a hospital would like to do analysis by each physical ward (bed > occupancy rates etc) and not always group them together by type of ward. > > You can use orgunit groups to apply standard hospital departement names to > all those wards, which can then be used for aggregation when doing > analysis above the hospital level or when comparing hospitals. > > Ola > ------ > On 31 Oct 2013 09:32, "Lars Helge Øverland" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Marta, >> >> I don't know enough about the use-case to be sure. However my suggestion >> would be to use the organisation units to represent the departments. It is >> simply because usually the departments are different across hospitals - >> some are not always there, some are combined and so on. So you could make a >> script that creates the initial setup with all departments in all places >> and then modify it from there. It makes form design easier. The data mart >> performance penalty mentioned above applied at the time of writing but not >> anymore with the analytics engine. A problem with using categories is that >> you get lots of non-applicable fields if you use section forms, and lots of >> maintenance mess if you go with custom forms. >> >> cheers >> >> Lars >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >>
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