Setting Your Own Vitals Thresholds

Vitals thresholds help you quickly spot when a patient’s measurements fall outside of expected ranges. The system highlights abnormal readings so you can focus on what needs attention.

This is especially useful when reviewing trends, managing chronic conditions, or triaging data.

What the feature does

• Each vital is evaluated against a minimum and maximum value you define, by age range and sex at birth
• Readings outside the range are visually flagged in the patient chart, so you can spot outliers without opening each entry
• Thresholds can be adjusted to match your clinical preferences, based on age and sex at birth

How to use Vitals Thresholds

1. Open Vitals settings

• Go to Practice Settings > Vitals > Threshold groups

• You can also get there from a patient's chart: open the Vitals section, use the options menu, and select Threshold groups.

2. Set thresholds for each vital

• Click "+Threshold group" to add a new one
• Under Demographics, set the age range (in days, weeks, months, or years) and sex at birth this group applies to
• Under Record Thresholds, enter the minimum and maximum values for each applicable vital;

Note: Use the switch-units icon next to height, weight, temperature, and circumference fields to enter values in imperial or metric

• Save your changes

Repeat this for as many age and sex at birth groups as you need.

4. Review vitals with thresholds applied

Once thresholds are set, go back to the patient's vitals view. Any recorded value outside its defined range is highlighted.

5. Update thresholds as needed

Clinical needs change, and so should your thresholds. Return to Threshold groups at any time and adjust values based on your patient population or practice protocols.

Important

• If two groups leave a gap of less than 14 days between them, patients in that gap use the nearest lower group's thresholds; larger gaps get no threshold applied.
• Keep ranges clinically meaningful for your patient population. You can adjust or delete a group at any time — deleting is permanent.
• You can filter the threshold groups table by sex at birth, created by, or last edited date, and sort by age range. All fields, including the minimum and maximum values, stay editable after a group is saved.