This article is part of the systems administration guide. You will require administration access to view the pages mentioned in this article.
You can configure which Metrics/ Measurements you wish to capture / graph for a patient.
- Click Administration.
- Select Metrics from the menu
- The Metrics screen will display with the following fields
Field | Description | Example |
Name | This is the name of the configured Metric | BP |
Enabled | This indicates if the Metric values is active and will then appear as an available value on a patient record. | Yes |
From this screen you can:
- Add a new Metric
- Edit an existing Metric
To add a New Metric
- Click Administration.
- Select Metrics from the menu.
- The Metrics screen will display.
- Select the New button from the top of the screen.
- The Add New Metrics screen will display.
- Fill in the following fields using the table below for reference.
- When done, click Create Metric.
Field | Description | Example |
Details | ||
Name | This is the name of the configured Metric | BP |
Description | This indicates if the Metric values is active and will then appear as an available value on a patient record. | Yes |
| Definition Url | ||
Enabled (Check box) | True/Yes/ Checked | |
Format String | This is used to describe the how the metic is displayed on screen. Primarily used when more than one vale applies. Each of the values is references using $1,$2,$3 or $4. With other characters displayed as is. For a single value you would use $1 For displaying Blood Pressure you would use $1/$2 so that the metric is displayed like 86/120 | $1/$2 |
Number of Values | This indicates how many values will make up the total metric value i.e. Blood Pressure requires 2 | Two Values |
Default Confidence level | Clinical | |
Show on Patient Summary screen in the section below (Check box) | This check box indicates if you want the latest measurement value to display on the Patient Summary (in addition to under the Measurements menu item) | True/Yes/ Checked |
Section | This drop-down list contains the Patient Summary Sub-sections. | Identity |
Position | This is the position/order of fields you wish the Metric value to display (under the pre-existing fields) | 1 |
Value 1 | ||
Label | ||
Unit | ||
Decimal Places | ||
Lower Limit | ||
Upper Limit | ||
Validation String | In this field, enter an expression—similar to expressions in assessments—to perform validation on user-entered values. | Example for Pulse monitoring: if($1>200,error("TOO HIGH")) |
Colour | ||
LOINC Code | ||
| Enable Metric Notes | Enable a short note around the measurement | |
These same fields are repeated for Values 2 - Value 4
v6.68 Update: Addressed a Validation String Error
Addressed an issue where the error message for validation strings were incorrectly displayed. Post-fix, CareRight now displays the correct text as specified in the Validation String field.
For example, given the Validation field of if($1>200,error("TOO HIGH")), a value entered outside of the defined range would result in the following notification message of "TOO HIGH":
