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ea0051p056 | Pituitary and growth | BSPED2017

Embedding electronic growth charts into clinical practice at a children’s hospital

Andrews Edward , Wootton Stephen , Cable David , Marchant Alastair , Miller Harriet , Davies Justin

Background: Accurate evaluation of growth is a key assessment of child health, in the UK use of a paper growth chart is currently standard practice. Our trust had a drive to become paper light thus there needed to be a way to store growth data electronically. Growth data is often incompletely documented. A previous review of children’s outpatient attendances at our hospital found that across medical, surgical and tertiary specialties only 33% of children had growth data d...