Medications List

Look-Ahead Scroll Bar

Purpose

Diagram of a Medications List View with a look-ahead scroll bar. Callouts indicate: the look-ahead scroll bar, the two look-ahead notifications, the medications in the list and an alert in the lower look-ahead scroll bar notification

MEDv-177

When displaying a list of current or past medications, and the scroll bar is active because the list is longer than the space available to display them, provide a clear indication that there are medications out of view

Mandatory

MEDv-178

When displaying current medications, supplement the standard scroll bar with notifications that display the names of drugs that are out of view. This guide refers to this kind of scroll bar as a look-ahead scroll bar (LASB)