Guidance – Displaying Adverse Drug Reaction Risks
Introduction
The Design Guidance – Displaying Adverse Drug Reaction Risks document provides
you with guidance and recommendations for indicating which drugs present a risk to a patient, based upon
adverse drug reactions the patient has had in the past. It addresses how to display a summary of these drugs
and the nature of the reactions the patient has suffered, so that clinicans can decide whether or not to
prescribe these in the future.
This guidance should ensure that clinical applications enhance patient safety and clinical application usability by:
- Clearly displaying the presence, or absence, of any known adverse drug reaction risks for a patient
- Indicating the type of reaction that the patient has experienced in the past
- Presenting links to existing notes which descrive the reaction events that justify why the patient is deemed
at risk of reacting to the drug