Auto-calculation for Parity Values

The auto-calculation of parity enables you to make corrections to a patient’s parity if they are incorrect. In the Pregnancy History grid, without adding the details of each associated pregnancy, you can quickly document a patient’s current parity values. You can also view all patients within the practice that have disparate parity detail information.

Parity values are automatically calculated based on the entries in the Pregnancy History grid. The parity values must be in sync for the parity auto-calculation to work. So, the parity data in the editable shared fields on the OBGYN Synopsis or Pregnancy Outcomes templates must match the parity data in the Pregnancy History grid.

The NextGen Healthcare system finds and notify the user to any discrepancies in the parity data in a patient chart. These application messages appear on both the OBGYN Synopsis and Pregnancy Outcomes templates. Until the parity data is reconciled by the user, parity auto-calculation for that patient record is temporarily turned off.

To reconcile the parity data, you must make edits to either the shared fields on the OBGYN Synopsis or Pregnancy Outcomes templates, or to the data in the Pregnancy history grid on the Pregnancy Outcomes template. The edits applied are dependent on where the error is located – the error could be in the fields, the grid, or both.

For more information on the parity calculations select the information icon next to the Pregnancy History grid to open a PDF that explains the parity auto-calculation functionality.