As a pediatrician, this particular area is very important to me. Most parents keep a book or diary of their child's well child visits. They like to keep the weight, height and head circumferences as numerical values rather than percentages.
I am asked quite often if I can print out a list of the child's weights. It is easy to do by clicking on visit history and vital signs. The problem is invariably some weights are saved in pounds and some as kilograms (especially if a medicine was prescribed at that visit). So you end up with a list like 8.3 lbs, 9.6 lbs, 4.8 Kgs, 10.4 lbs, etc. The others measurements tend to be the same as we always enter length/heights in inches and HCs in centimeters. Not only do the dual weight measurements make it difficult for the parent, it also makes it hard to use the actual weights in FTT infants.
My suggestion would be to have two columns for the weights so that whether you entered kgs in the kgs column or pounds in the pounds column, AC would auto convert lbs to kgs and vice versa (as it is capable of doing now) and put them in the appropriate column. This would be the best of both worlds.
The other issue is the downside of a good idea, which is a note button. It is good to write comments like "wearing diaper when weighed" or "couldn't get weight due to child's screaming." But, no matter how far over to the right you type in the comment, it always overrides the HCs on the printout. It looks horrible, and I won't even give a printout to a parent which looks like that. I try to tell my staff not to use it, but they do. It seems like one or two lines of code could fix that.
