View Pediatric Growth Charts

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View Pediatric Bone Age History

You can view the patient's growth charts individually on the Vs Charts Peds template. If the bone age details are documented in the Office Service or Order Management template, then the patient's bone age and patient's age during the test appear at the bottom of the Vs Charts Peds template. The grid displays the updated bone age details. Open the SOAP template. In the Vital Signs panel, click Graph to view the pediatrics growth curve and percentile. The Vs Charts Peds template opens. To view the documented bone age details, click the Bone Age History link. The Bone Age Detail template opens. Bone Age Detail Click Save & Close. Parent topic: Review and Update Pediatric Vital Signs

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8

Review and Update Pediatric Vital Signs

If you need to update a vital sign of a patient, ensure that you are editing the desired record, as vital signs can be entered multiple times during the encounter. Open the SOAP template. In the Vital Signs panel, select a record in the grid and click Edit. For patients who are two years or younger, the Pediatric Under 2 Years Vital Signs template opens. For patients who are older than two years, the Pediatric Over 2 Years Vital Signs template opens with the values filled in the respective fields. Edit the corresponding vital sign. Click Save, and then Close. View Pediatric Growth Charts You can view the pediatric growth chart based on the age and measurements of the patient. The standard growth chart measures BMI, weight, height, and head circumference. View Pediatric Bone Age History You can view the patient's growth charts individually on the Vs Charts Peds template. Parent topic: Review of SOAP Details by Provider Related tasks Add Vital Signs of Pediatric Patients

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Growth Charts

Growth charts depict a patient growth up to 20 years of age in relation to weight, height, weight for length, head circumference, and Body Mass Index (BMI). This type of graph is used by pediatric doctors to record growth of a child. Growth charts can be generated from NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine and custom NextGen® Enterprise EHR templates and have specific preferences and options. For more information on generating growth charts, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Growth Charts User Guide for NextGen® Enterprise EHR . You can save a growth chart to the patient encounter. Parent topic: Graph Generation Related tasks Save a Medical Records Template Chart to an Encounter

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8

Pediatric Growth Charts

NextGen® Enterprise enables you to record a pediatric patient's body measurements and graph growth charts on the measurements using the standard NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine pediatric templates. The growth chart uses data from all the patient encounters. For a premature patient, you can record prematurity and the gestational age on the Birth History template and the preterm growth charts are used for the patient. The Growth Chart link is available on the Record Vital Signs and the age-based Pediatric Vital Signs templates. You can also generate growth charts from the File menu on NextGen® Enterprise. Different growth charts available in NextGen® Enterprise include BMI, height, weight, head circumference, and weight vs. length graphs. You can indicate if the patient has down syndrome or turner syndrome on the Birth History template. Once selected, the values carry forward to future encounters, then for the patient, the Growth Chart link opens the specialized growth charts for turner

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8

Generate Growth Charts on the Vital Signs Template

You can select the Growth Chart link on the Pediatric Vital Signs template to view a set of up to four growth charts at a time in a single window. The set may include growth charts for height, weight, head circumference, and BMI. Before you begin Before you generate a growth chart, you must set up the appropriate graphing preferences in System Administrator. You need to set up the following gestational age in graphing preferences: Gestational Age - Days Set the Gestational Age - Days value as Birth_.hx_.gestDays Gestational Age - Weeks Set the Gestational Age - Weeks value as Birth_.hx_.gest_weeks For more information on growth charts and graphing preferences, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the latest Growth Charts User Guide forNextGen®Enterprise EHR and System Administrator Guide forNextGen®Enterprise. You can enter the gestational age on the Pediatric Under 2 Years Vital Signs template or the Pregnancy/Birth History template. The best practice is to add the

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8

Add Vital Signs of Pediatric Patients

You can document the vital signs of a pediatric patient on the Pediatric Vital Signs template. The template displays the weight for an age per length and sex-specific percentile value for patients who are younger than three years, based on their weight and height. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Open a patient's record, and then open an encounter. On Top Toolbar, click Templates to open the Select Template window, and then select the Intake template. In the Vital Signs panel, click Add. The Pediatric [Age] Vital Signs template opens. In the Height/length measurements section, do one of the following: To use data from a previous encounter, select Carried forward . To enter data from today's encounter, select a position and then enter the height, and then select Measured today. Note: If the value entered is not within the range, a message appears to indicate that the value entered is out of range. In the Weight measurement section, select whether the patient is dressed with or without shoe

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