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[Samuel Cheburet <samuelcheburet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lars,

point Noted. see comment for last week on Indocators

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> let me emphasize one point that I have mentioned so many times now
> regarding naming of data elements and indicators.
>
> Please do NOT start indicator names with "% of" or "Total". Do not start
> data element names with "Total of ". We have many hundreds of these names
> now.
>
> It becomes impossible to sort and find them this way when working with the
> system. "Number of" is implicit in an aggregate system. The indicator type,
> for instance %, can be found from the indicator type.
>
> The most significant part of the name should come first. So instead of
> calling an indicator
>
> "% of Total Female tested for HIV (PTB-)"
>
> which is impossible to find in a sorted list, you call it
>
> "HIV (PTB-) Tested Female"
>
> Instead of calling a data element
>
> "Number of TB Patients with BMI <18.5"
>
> you just call it
>
> "TB Patients with BMI <18.5"
>
>
> Also, there was a group working on giving data elements meaningful names
> in the workshop last week. We still have hundreds of pointless names like:
>
> 1. New (N)
> 1. Type of resistance
> 2210302 Accommodation
>
> The idea is that we put the name specific to the form in the "form name"
> attribute of the data element. This name will then appear on section forms.
> Then we give a meaningful name to the data element so that we can
> understand what it means and so that it can be used in reports. I will try
> to fix some of it using scripts. Can we work on improving this?
>
>
> regards,
>
> Lars
>
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