The growth charts that OpenEMR produces are the old ones. About 3 years ago, CDC changed its recommendation, and they now use the WHO charts for children under age 2 years. The new charts are more appropriate for people of Hispanic and Asian backgrounds, as well as for breastfeeding children. Here is a link to the correct growth charts:
Is it not just a change of the XXX.png growth image (keeping length and width the same) and may be some changes in the view file of VITALS?
On the Internet there are many and even more growth charts that might be more valuable for a certain group of people.
But is it worth the effort for general purposes? Usually it is the difference that matters. Following a percentile line in the graph is all it takes to follow growth, weight, abdominal circumference, head circumference and many more.
But a willing developer could make some kind of choice-model to make all growth charts available for all kind of persons from all kinds or race, country or other imaginable possible growth related problem.
I have seen it, I have checked it, and I have done some input with many of them. But now I can’t find the website/program back. Is is somewhere in my computer, if found I give you the great example of what different growth-charts can show and possibly you can imagine of how they got it to work…
The Age function inside the chart.php is very robust. it is able to print out age in year, month and day. very convenient to pediatricians for immunization schedule. It also accommodates for leap years! I have been test it out and it works perfectly. Maybe, we should use it for Age display in the main menu. Just my thought.
great work. How did you manage to get length, width and placing of the dots so accurate on the graphs? Is this calculation in pixels somewhere to be found in the manual-wiki?
In your new (and in the old charts also) there are no dots registration in length and weight (page 2).
Thank you very much. I’m a pediatrician client of Tony’s. I’ll be trying out these charts starting tomorrow in my office. I’ll let you guys know if they look right.
Bo…
Thanks for the mail…testd the charts out…and all i can say is…they are very nicely done…loved it…thanks a lot for the effort…you can put up the charts in the github for review and get it impleneted in the official codebase…
Thanks for testing. All graphs are in pixels. 1000 x 1294, and 2000 x 1294 pixels. I use Gimp to convert and doing manual pixel calculations and put in the numbers correspond to initial positions of weight, length and age in months. The file ‘chart.php’ has comments to prompt me what to do. The rest of the calculations are done in ‘chart.php’.
Thanks to Brady for HTML output.
Not related to growth charts, but saw something strange happening while inputting the values in VITAL form:
In top row it is stated as: date time of registration. Yesterday I thought my clock of Windows 7 PC Xampp version OEMR 4.1.1 was wrong so I changed my time. Now today the PC time is correct, but I get a complete different notations of the wrong time.
In the php file I see the time is registered as:** showTime()**
Question: Where can I correct so the local PC time is registered? Both registrations of time in VITAL do not seem to have any relation with International time schedules from the Internet.
1. I just asked Brady if and how my commits to GitHub are processed. If I understand, I can easily add your commits. It really is done in a wink, but I have to be sure I understand before making a mess out of my efforts to get the GitHub concept. Just do as suggested in the GitHub for dummies. I do the Windows version and that is for me as windows victim easier in getting things working.
2. About the timestamp: If the server is working under XAMPP, where does it store the time, so I can change something into LocalHost PC time…. or is this in User manual. I can not remember that I needed to change anything with earlier versions of XAMPP-OpenEMR on different other places with time registrations.
Hi…
I have already put that up on github…Brady/Tony can pull the commit from my branch to put it on the official codebase after a small review if needed…Thanks for the charts once again…
