LARD Jan 10 Meeting Minutes - Public Health

Future considerations:
• TWIST could be reprogrammed to calculate and plot exact age with a
significant amount of effort.
• Other software graphing could be accessed to provide additional
options.
• Updated prenatal weight gain grids information from IOM will be
available in TWIST with the implementation of RISC Revision 10 in
August 2010.
Requests from LARD:
• Make gestational age more specific on the medical data screen.
• Add color to the BMI graph to denote normal (green) and excess
(red) BMI levels to aid in explanation of the graph and enhance
parents understanding of the chart.
• Identify availability of Down’s syndrome growth charts to be added to
TWIST.
Addendum message from Kim McGee:
At the last LARD meeting, a question was raised regarding what to put in
the height and weight fields when no values are available. "Filling the fields
with 9's" is the standard to indicate a null value. There had been some
problems where 9's were entered and then incorrect information displayed
on the growth grid. The main reason for that is that there were not enough
nines entered (e.g. putting in 2 nines when have to put in 3). A call came in
asking what to do with the ounces and the 1/8 inches, since the system
won't allow 9's. If you leave the ounces and the fractions as zero, but fill the
pounds and inches with 9's and you will not get a plot on the grid.
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1-4pm
Minutes respectively submitted by Cheryl Alto
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