Thanks a lot, Jason and Alvin for sharing your insights. I think I might just go with "Report" or "Reported cases" for now. But what remains as a challenge is to easily populate the DHIS2 data value table to allow for the generation of maps. From Jason's experience, a script may be the way to go. That could be external, or done in javascript inside an app, which could also offer multi-period data entry. However, it would be nice if multi-period data entry could be included in an upcoming release.
Knut On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Alvin B. Marcelo <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Knut, > > My two cents as we recently experienced a measles 'outbreak'. > > First, better not to call it an 'outbreak'. Health officials are very > sensitive about the term. We can gain their confidence if we don't > "presume" an outbreak by labeling it as such on the interface. > > Second, we missed this 'outbreak' in Metro Manila (of all places!) because > the health workers waited for official lab confirmation (which takes 3 > weeks in this part of the world). The health workers forgot to execute the > protocol that if the 3Cs are present (colds, cohryza, conjunctivitis) they > should suspect measles and immediately vaccinate the surrounding children. > > Lesson: if any child comes in with any one of the 3Cs, the information > system should alert them for the other 2Cs. The 3Cs will be reported > upwards and it will be a syndromic report and not an outbreak report. > > The first syndromes (in retrospect) started coming in as early as August > but it was only December when the trend became evident (due to the lack of > near-real time reporting and health worker forgetting the protocol). > > I fully support this initiative. Such a system, if it works, could have > saved lives in the Philippines. A better name might be DHIS2 syndromic > surveillance decision support system with the ability to inform officials > of dangerous trends. > > We'll leave it up to the health officials to call it an outbreak. > > Alvin > > > > > Sent from my BB Curve 9320 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Knut Staring <[email protected]> > Sender: "Dhis2-users" > <[email protected]>Date: > Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:16:23 > To: [email protected]<[email protected]> > Subject: [Dhis2-users] Maps of outbreaks > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Knut Staring Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo +4791880522 http://dhis2.org
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