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Guidance – Search and Prescribe

Introduction

The Design Guidance – Search and Prescribe document provides you with guidance and recommendations for the design of solutions whose aim is to support searching for and prescribing individual medications for single patients. It describes the area of focus, lists mandatory and recommended guidance points with usage examples and explains the rationale behind the guidance. This work describes a Prescribing Model that is designed to minimize the risk when prescribing (or ‘ordering’) medications in hospital and acute care. It advocates a dose-based prescribing system in which:

A prescriber specifies a drug by its generic name plus dose, route and frequency
A nurse then selects the correct quantity of an actual product to give to the patient

The Prescribing Model aims to provide the safeguards needed to ensure dose-based prescribing results in prescriptions without any unsafe ambiguities for those giving medicines to patients.

Summary

The guidance includes recommendations for:

Text entry searching for drugs
Differentiating between generic drugs and brand names in lists
Displaying, ordering and formatting search results lists
Navigating within and between search results lists
Interacting with search result list items
Indicating non-formulary drugs in search results lists
Presentation of lists of predefined prescriptions
Structure and layout of the prescription form
Presentation of required and optional attributes
Guidance for efficiently prescribing commonly prescribed medications
Guidance for prescribing less commonly prescribed and more detailed medications
Selection from a predefined set of administration times or the definition of an individual administrative event for a once only medication
Guidance for supporting the review of a prescription before it is authorized

Associated Quick Reference Guides

Quick Implementation Guides (QIG) present Design Guidance content in a more consumable, visual manner. Each QIG contains all design guidance points (mandatory and recommended) accompanied by example diagrams to illustrate their application.

These documents are offered by way of quick reference to already familiar guidance. However, remember that the full and definitive versions of the Design Guidance include further usage examples (showing both correct and incorrect application) and detail the rationale behind the guidance.

Quick Implementation Guides
Search and Prescribe

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