What this card shows
The Average patient age card shows the average age, in years, of all the patients on your clinic's records. It is a single number, rounded to one decimal place, and it gives you a quick sense of the age profile of the people your clinic treats.
Age is worked out from each patient's date of birth against today's date, so the number updates on its own as time passes and as new patients are added.
Reading the card
The card counts every patient who has a date of birth recorded. Patients with no date of birth are left out of the average rather than counted as zero.
There is no date filter on this card. It is a snapshot of your whole patient list as it stands today, not a figure for a particular month or year.
If a small number of records have an obviously wrong date of birth, that can pull the average up or down. It is worth checking the Date of birth - % populated card alongside this one, because the fewer patients with a date of birth recorded, the fewer records this average is based on.
Where this data comes from
The average comes from the Birth date field on each patient's record. Open a patient, go to Patient information, and the Birth date field sits in the Identity section near the top.
Birth date is a required field when a patient is first created, so most records will have one. If a date of birth is corrected later, the average reflects the change the next time the card is loaded.
Opening this card
In wawa, open Insights from the sidebar, then go to Standard Reports and select Patients, then Patient overview. The Average patient age card sits near the top of the dashboard.