Generating Pediatric Growth Charts

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Growth Chart Generation from the NextGen® Enterprise EHR File Menu

You can generate the following growth charts for a pediatric patient from the NextGen® Enterprise EHR File menu for either NextGen® Enterprise EHR custom templates or NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine templates. You do not need to open the template. Age vs. BMI Age vs. Height Age vs. Weight Age vs. Head Circumference Weight for Length Each growth chart shows the percentile where the patient's measurement falls in relation to pediatric peers, represented by a red dot. For information on the available age ranges, data sources, and percentiles graphed, see Standard Growth Charts, Premature Growth Charts, Turner Syndrome Growth Charts, and Down Syndrome Growth Charts. You can also generate growth charts by: Selecting growth chart links on NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine pediatric templates. Inserting a growth chart Graph field on your NextGen® Enterprise EHR custom template. For more information on Graph fields, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Templates

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Growth Chart Generation from NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine

NextGen® Enterprise EHR enables you to record a pediatric patient's body measurements and graph growth charts from them using NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine pediatric templates. The growth chart uses template data from all of the patient's encounters. You can generate a selected type of growth chart from the Record Vital Signs template or a set of up to four growth charts at a time from the Pediatric Vital Signs template. The growth chart graphs are based on the type and age of the patient and the measurements provided. You can also generate growth charts from a NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine template by using File menu commands in NextGen® Enterprise EHR. You can graph BMI, height, weight, head circumference, and weight versus length. For more information on using NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine for pediatric patients, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the Pediatrics User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine. Growth Chart Measurements Parent topic: Vi

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Generate a Growth Chart from the File Menu

Before you begin Make sure that you have set up Graphing preferences that correspond to the template and field values that data are graphed from. To generate a specialty growth chart, set up the applicable preference for Gestational Age (premature patients), Down Syndrome Indicator, or Turner Syndrome Indicator. To graph a growth chart using a measurement date instead of an encounter date, enter the Measurement Date Column preference. You can also set up preferences to Print Patient Name, Print Patient Date of Birth, and Print Chart Print Time on the generated growth chart. Open the pediatric patient's history in NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From the File menu, select Graph, Growth Charts. Select one of the following: BMI Height Weight Head Circum Weight for Length NextGen® Enterprise EHR plots the graph for the selected growth chart using template data from all of the patient's encounters. Right-click the graph to display a menu, with options to select other available plots, print the gro

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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

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Premature Growth Charts

Premature growth charts are available for age versus height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and head circumference, and weight versus length. They are automatically generated for a patient with a gestational age of less than 37 weeks at birth and a current gestational age of up to 50 weeks. An age adjustment plot can be used when the patient is older than 50 weeks. Premature growth charts use data from the 2013 Fenton Growth Chart study to graph the percentiles: 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, and 95. The growth charts display Fenton 2013 Preterm Growth Chart in the title. For example, the title for a head circumference growth chart for a premature girl is Age vs. Head Circumference (Fenton 2013 Preterm Growth Chart, Girls). For a premature boy, the title for a height growth chart is Age vs. Height (Fenton 2013 Preterm Growth Chart, Boys) and for a weight growth chart, it is Age vs. Weight (Fenton 2013 Preterm Growth Chart, Boys). Premature growth charts are not displayed for Turner syndrome pa

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Down Syndrome Growth Charts

Note: If the patient is premature and has Down syndrome, premature growth charts are displayed. Specialized height, weight, head circumference, weight versus length, and BMI growth charts are available for Down syndrome patients from 0-36 months and 2-20 years of age. The Down syndrome growth charts use CDC 2015 data. You can show a citation for this data source when you generate the growth chart. To generate a Down syndrome growth chart, you must select a Down Syndrome indicator on the NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine or custom NextGen® Enterprise EHR template you are using, and set up the corresponding preference. The following table lists the data source and percentiles graphed for Down syndrome growth charts. Type Ages Data Source Percentiles Graphed Height 0-36 months CDC 2015 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, 95, 98 2-20 years CDC 2015 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, 95, 98 Weight 0-36 months CDC 2015 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, 95, 98 2-20 years CDC 2015 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, 95, 98 Head Ci

Generating Pediatric Growth Charts

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