In the TELUS Collaborative Health Record (CHR), you can use growth charts to graph and compare data for children's height, weight, head circumference (0-2 years), and body mass index (2-19 years) against children of the same age. This enables you to track a child's growth and development as time progresses. You view and customize growth charts from the patient dashboard in a patient chart, and you can save the growth chart as a PDF to the Patient Files. For more information, see Using growth charts.
For example, below is a growth chart for an average child from 2 - 5 years of age.
You can also view the chart as a graph, using the WHO growth charts for Canada.
📌 Note: Any data point saved in the growth chart that is more recent than the latest Patient Data > Vitals entry is automatically saved in the Patient Data section of the patient’s chart and the encounter’s vital table.
Also, when you add height and weight measurements to the vitals table in an encounter and save it, the CHR automatically updates the patient’s growth chart.
When deleting or editing data in a patient’s growth chart, these actions are also reflected in the vitals table of saved or signed encounters.
Updated April 22, 2024