Sparkline Anatomy

Subject: Sparkline Anatomy

Our team (Karl, Jared, Jeff) met this AM to work out some vagaries of sparkline display on the
Condition Summary screen. This feels like progress.
 
We thought you’d like to know, and would appreciate any feedback, about the shape this is taking.
Sparklines are data-intense, word-sized graphs.
 
 
Here’s a view in PowerChart  (below)

 
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Here’s the “Sparkline Anatomy” illustration that conveys how the sparklines are rendered.
This is subject to change, if we see ways that work better. Some lab values having target ranges that
are conditional (e.g. Protime, LDL cholesterol).

 
 
And here’s a bigger view of that tiny sparkline , made large:

 
 
Issues that remain (ignore this if it doesn’t seem clear to you):
1.       Not all sparklines in a column share the same time scale. Some may be up to 2 years of data.
Others may be merely a few days of data. So you can’t compare the one above to the one
below.

2.       The location and vertical spread of the normal band may vary depending on the high and low
values sampled for the time interval.

 
 
Jeff Belden MD
beldenj@health.missouri.edu
573-489-4206 m