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All types of medication order were audited, including intravenous fluids, when required and once only medication.
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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.
It is often the case that the person processing a medication order is not the pharmacist.
* HMO Healthth Maintenance Organisation, FDA Food and Drug Administration, RCTCT – Randomised Controlled Trial.** Alert generated when a trigger medication order was entered.
Unlike most other CTO regimes, in Norway, a separate Medication Order is needed to compel patients to take medication.
If a medication order was dosed off a weight that had since been updated, a reminder to "weight adjust" the medication dose is issued.
If consensus could not be reached, the prescribing issue was not scored as a prescribing error and the medication order was regarded as appropriate.
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).
If consensus was reached between the ICU hospital pharmacist and the attending ICU physicians on a recommendation regarding a prescribing issue, then that issue was scored as a prescribing error and the medication order was corrected by the responsible attending ICU physician.
Univariable and multivariable logistic regression models were developed to examine the potential impact of the following variables on the likelihood of a prescribing error: type of prescriber, type of prescription (handwritten vs. electronic), and the stage of hospital stay at which the medication order was issued.
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