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E-prescribing for children

E-prescribing for children. Neil A Caldwell, Consultant Pharmacist, Children’s Services, WUTH Honorary Lecturer, LJMU June 2013. What’s different?. What’s different? What’s not?. Different. Prescription commonly has many iterations.

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E-prescribing for children

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  1. E-prescribing for children Neil A Caldwell, Consultant Pharmacist, Children’s Services, WUTH Honorary Lecturer, LJMU June 2013

  2. What’s different?

  3. What’s different? What’s not?

  4. Different • Prescription commonly has many iterations. • Initial guesstimate informed, influenced and modified by multiple individuals over time course: formulation, concentration, volume, brand (taste/palatability), availability or administration time. • What is margin for variance? What is legal?

  5. Different • Clear, unambiguous order but.....you see what you assume prescription should be. • 10kg child prescribed: Clarithromycin (125mg/5mL) liquid, give 62.5g po bd. • 4 doses charted + checked as given.

  6. Different CDS such as advanced dosing model logic. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2011; 11: 14

  7. Different • Dose rounding: how, when, who, where? • Do you round up or down? Influenced by pharmacology, concentration, dose and volume. • Are “rules” different for different medicines or indications?

  8. Different • Fewer medicines: 4 medicines comprise >50% of scripts in DGH for children. 150 medicines are 98.5% of prescriptions. • Adult surgeons often prescribe for children! • Off label use of medicines, evidence lacking, risk of significant overdose.

  9. What’s not different • Same goal. To create an inpatient or discharge prescription. • Drug catalogue: same products for children and adults, dm+d description. • Patient PAS system: admissions, transfers, patient identification. • Prescribing style: drug, dose, route, frequency. • Basics of documenting administration, same but differences in times and double signing. • Basic decision support: allergy checking and interactions. Worries about alert fatigue.

  10. Personal opinion... • Target children first in system design. • If works for children, will work for adults, but not vice versa. • Perfect system is pipe dream. Should never replace practical common sense. • Wherever possible, design out common “mistakes.”

  11. An observation.. “Evolution of EP mirrors child development. After long and protracted birth EP arrived, and initially throve. During infancy it suffered minor setbacks and a serious scare. It’s now come through these tribulations intact if a little chastened. As EP leaves the toddler years behind it faces a challenging world knowing that with support and guidance it can look forward to childhood with optimism.” Arch Dis Child 2012;97:124–128

  12. E-prescribing must cover your Rs right patient right medication right dose right volume right route right time right documentation

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