Wow! I never noticed that before. What a complete waste of code. It smacks of borrowing some other code just for the sake of being able to do it. I must be missing something. Is it for someone who cannot type to do data entry and must use a mouse? I cannot possibly see where using sliders would be any faster or more accurate than either typing the numbers in the large box or the actual vital signs.
I have railed against and suggested things for the vital signs part of the program, and it will never change. Because of the U.S. ridiculous refusal to change to the metric system, there is actually a need for THREE weight columns: Pounds and ounces, Pounds with a decimal and Kgs. Our scale measures in Kgs and pounds with decimals. Which is good, because you can't enter pounds and ounces into AC. Most programs have to convert pounds and ounces into an absolute number such as 8.2 lbs or whatever. So, what should happen is there should be all three and entering into any of them should automatically populate the other three. And, no changing the units by clicking on them for WEIGHTS. What should go into printout when you print vitals should be TWO columns, not one column with a mixture of kgs and pounds. That is useless and confusing for parents and providers.
Onto the length/height depending on lying or standing. PLEASE get rid of the "m." Get ride of the meter. Even a 7 foot tall person is only barely over 2 meters. We go through the process of making sure it is on inches before we enter heights, but one shouldn't have to figure out what 48 inches should be in meters.
Of course, since our babies leave the hospital with a weight 3.6 kgs, length of 21.5 inches and HC of 34 cms, how will we ever get this correct. And, when you tell any parent that there baby is 7.9 lbs when they left the hospital at 7 lbs 1s oz, they will automatically assume their baby lost weight.
A huge issue is there is no way to change the defaut values for yellow and red flagging. There is a reason for Harriett-Lane.
Finally, the note for making notes about vital signs or whatever, which should be very useful cannot be used at least by us, because once it is saved it then overruns the head circumfernece section on the printout.
These would be easy changes I would think.
