A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How often to repeat it, because quarterly seems to be the convention and I cannot find the reasoning?
JennaRN said:Follow-up — I put something in the gap where food used to be rather than waiting for the gap to close on its own.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
JennaRN said:Follow-up — I put something in the gap where food used to be rather than waiting for the gap to close on its own.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
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Shop Reference StandardsJennaRN said:Follow-up — I put something in the gap where food used to be rather than waiting for the gap to close on its own.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.