Adding Physical Activity Vital Sign Measurement under General Health Weekly exercise
The recommendation from Exercise is Medicine, a global initiative launched by American Medical Association and American College of Sports Medicine in 2007 is to ask all clients the below two questions known as the PAVS (Physical activity Vital Sign). On their website exerciseismedicine.org they urge practitioners to get this vital sign integrated into the CMS, hence my email to you. Most Physiotherapists in NZ now use Gensolve and therefore I would be very grateful if you could integrate these Vital signs into the database so that all patients are asked this question.
1. On Average, how many days per week do you engage in moderate to strenuous exercise (like a brisk walk)? ...... days
2. On Average, how many minutes do you engage in exercise at this level? ...... minutes
Total minutes per week (multiply #1 by #2)