Galen eCalcs - Calculator: Pediatric BMI-for-Age Z-Score Calculator

Description

The Pediatric BMI-for-Age Z-Score Calculator provides a statistical analysis of a pediatric patient’s placement on the BMI scale for their current age. A patient’s BMI value is looked up using a Z-Score reference chart in order to place the patient at a Z-Score value within a particular percentile range.

Calculator Search/Filter Keywords

At the calculator level, eCalcs comes delivered with default keywords that can be leveraged in the "Search/Filter" field to enable Specialty or System driven calculator searching.

Specialties

• Family Practice
• Pediatrics

Systems

• Musculoskeletal

Calculator Configuration Options

Preference Name	Valid Range	Description
Publishing	Checked / Unchecked	When checked, the calculator will display for users on the front end. When unchecked, the calculator WILL NOT display for users on the front end.
Orderable Item Override	(BLANK) / G-PZS	“(BLANK)” indicates that the global configuration options for Orderable Item will be used. “G-PZS” indicates that the calculator specific value will be used and can display the specific calculator name in the chart output.

Calculator Configuration Options

Preference Name	Valid Range	Description
Publishing	Checked / Unchecked	When checked the calculator will display for users on the front end. When unchecked, the calculator WILL NOT display for users on the front end.

Calculator Inputs

Input	Mapping Type	Description
BMI	Vital Sign	Patient’s body mass index value
Height	Vital Sign	Patient’s height
Weight	Vital Sign	Patient’s weight

Calculator Outputs

Output	Mapping Type	Description
BMI-for-age-Percentile	Result	Patient’s BMI for current age percentile value
BMI-for-age-Z-score	Result	Patient’s BMI for current age Z-score value

References

http://zscore.research.chop.edu/result.php