Medication Event
The medication event (event) contains all information necessary for the documentation of the administration of a drug, the dispensing of a drug or the printing of a prescription.
Events represent the times at which the drug was administered or dispensed or a prescription for this drug was printed. These times result from the validity of the medication order and the validity of the cycle in use (e.g. twice daily).
Note
Events can only lie within the overlapping period of both periods of validity.
The user documents the administration, dispensing or printing of a prescription for a drug for a patient using events.
The system generates events from the information in the medication order (order). The user must call the event generation in the order. As standard, the system differentiates between events of the outpatient, PRN and inpatient event generation.
Structure
Using the following purposes, the system generates events from a medication order with different event types and therefore also different data structures.
Administration (inpatient event generation)
Dispensing (outpatient event generation)
Print prescription (outpatient event generation)
The data or data structure of an event also depend on the drug category of the ordered drug.
Standard drug (e.g. tablets)
IV
TPN
Compound (e.g. ointment, cream)
Drug kit
Example
According to the medication order the patient should receive 1 tablet twice daily for a duration of 10 days.
Administration: This results in a total of 20 events, 2 each day.
Print prescription: This results in 1 event in case of a container with at least 20 tablets. If the container only has 10 tablets, the system will generate 2 events.