Hi Lise, We don't do across programs. Our analysis is always per program. So, you can go ahead and use the same dataelement in multiple programs.
-- Abyot A. Gizaw. Senior Engineer, DHIS2 University of Oslo http://www.dhis2.org On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:59 AM, GROUT, Lise <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear users, > > > > Hope you are fine. > > > > I am just looking for confirmation. I created a data element > “classification” = new case/recurrent case (this actually applies to > several data element, but let’s take this one as an example). As this > question is common to different diseases at admission (to know if it is the > first episode of the disease or not), I first used this same data element > in this different disease-specific programs. > > > > But now I need confirmation that, in the analytical part, the aggregation > is based on the couple program/data element, i.e. that I will be able to > retrieve the number of new cases of disease A and the number of new cases > of disease B separately. > > > > Can you advise if it is wiser to create one data element by program or if > I can use the same data element across different program. I will never have > to sum the new cases across different programs. But I wanted to reduce the > multiplication of data elements. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Lise. > > > > > > Dr. Lise Grout > > *Epidemiologist* > > > > *World Health Organization* > > *Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM)* > *Innovative and Intensified Disease Management Unit* > *20, Avenue Appia; CH-1211 Geneva 27* > *Tel. **+41 22 791 2341 <%2B41%2022%20791%202341>* > > *Mobile +41 79 290 68 61 <%2B41%2079%20290%2068%2061>* > > *Skype: tigrouveto* > > http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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