| DESCRIPTION |
This multi-occurrence computed finding returns the patient's body
weight measurement. This may be before or after the weight
measurement.
COMPUTED FINDING PARAMETER FORMULA
M Mosteller
D DuBois and Dubois
H Haycock
G Gehan and George
B Boyd
surface area (BSA) as a value that can be used in the CONDITION
The default is to use the Mosteller formula. Unless there is a
reason to use one of the other formulas, the recommendation is to
use the default, because it is faster to calculate and the numerical
results are very close to those of the other formulas.
field. The COMPUTED FINDING PARAMETER can be used to select which
formula is used to calculate the BSA.
Note that date range searching is applied only to the weight and
that the date of the finding is the date of the weight measurement
used in the BSA calculation. The height used in the calculation will
be the height measurement that occurred closest to the date of the
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