One by one, they measured each patient's height and weight, documented their blood pressure, and calculated their body fat percentage with a handheld monitor.
The resident's most recent weight, and any previous weight documented in the last 6 months were recorded.
Of the 8,670 patients included during the study period, 2,882 (33.2%) had height and weight documented.
Fourth, body weight was determined indirectly from the most recent body weight documented in medical records, or as reported by a patient or relative.
Of the six patients who had a recent accurate weight documented in the notes, the mean difference (precision) between that and the true weight was 5.8 (± 4.0) kg.
If both of these sources were unavailable or thought to be unreliable, we recorded the most recent weight documented in the medical notes.
Six had weight loss of 2 18 kg over a period of 4 12 weeks prior to surgery, as documented in medical notes, while the remainder had stable weight documented on at least two occasions over a similar period.
However, if women delivered in facilities outside the study area or study staff were not available, we used the weight documented by the Department of Health staff on the RTHC (Rollins et al., 2007).
Lemay et al audited medical records from 465 adult patients seen at a community health center during one week in February of 1999 to evaluate height and weight documentation and obesity diagnosis by the practitioner over a prior six-month period, and found that only 63% of their patient cohort had a height and weight documented [ 27].
The regulations that were just published tell testers to give "considerable weight" to documented accommodations at applicants' schools, keep documentation requests "reasonable" and give credence to assessments of disabilities by qualified evaluators.
