Fig. 1.
Preoperative endocrine assessment. The green arrows in the anesthesia preoperative “VPEC/DOS” Pmodule’s endocrine section indicate where a provider documents that a patient has diabetes. Once the diabetes box is checked, the provider may select any of the four modifier checkboxes indicated by the lower green arrow. Discrete documentation of diabetes into a structured, machine-readable data field is one of the several ways our electronic health record identifies those needing intraoperative glucose measurements.