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Design Guidance for Drug Administration (PDF format)

Guidance – Drug Administration

Introduction

The Design Guidance – Drug Administration document provides you with guidance and recommendations for displaying a patient’s medication administration information in clinical applications. It enables unambiguous display of administration information, while enhancing patient safety and clinical application usability by:

Displaying rich medication information effectively, such as administration history, administration plan, and medication item types
Allowing quick identification and location of items that require immediate attention or may be useful to monitor (reducing the risk of them going unnoticed)
Supporting efficient and accurate recording of the administration results, such as timing, administrator details, deviations and exceptions
Electronically mirroring the format of current drug charts
Displaying complex schedules effectively

Summary of Guidance

The guidance describes the interface for supporting the administration of medications for a single patient:

The composition and ordering of items that appear within the administration interface
The framework controls, such as the status bar, Group By control and look-ahead scroll bar
Basic display properties, such as icons, symbols and event information
Examples of detailed displays and complex administrations for regular items, one-off items, ‘as required’ items, and continuous items (such as infusions)
The recording of administration events