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This article was authored by The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA) in response to a bill proposed by a South Carolina senator that would require revocation of a nurse's license if a medication order was "misread" resulting in an over/undermedication administration.
* HMO Healthth Maintenance Organisation, FDA Food and Drug Administration, RCTCT – Randomised Controlled Trial.** Alert generated when a trigger medication order was entered.
If consensus could not be reached, the prescribing issue was not scored as a prescribing error and the medication order was regarded as appropriate.
If a medication order was dosed off a weight that had since been updated, a reminder to "weight adjust" the medication dose is issued.
Electronic prescriptions were 12%% less likely to be associated with a prescribing error than were handwritten prescriptions (OR 0.88; 95 % CI 0.79 0.97) after controlling for type of prescriber and the prescribing stage at which the medication order was issued.
There were no significant differences in severity of error in the multinomial logistic regression model between types of prescriber or whether the medication order was handwritten or generated electronically (Table 6).
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It is often the case that the person processing a medication order is not the pharmacist.
Unlike most other CTO regimes, in Norway, a separate Medication Order is needed to compel patients to take medication.
Until now, medication ordering was primarily a paper-based process and consequently, it was error prone.
Personnel were not assigned to manage the medication inventory due to lack of a formalized process, therefore medication ordering was completely based on inference and presumption of which medications were currently being utilized and which medications may be needed in the future.
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