Enter a Reason for Cancelation of Drug Interactions

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Disease Contraindication

A new medication prescribed to a patient can have a negative interaction with an existing patient diagnosis. If a contraindication occurs, the Drug Interaction window opens. The window specifies the medication that caused the contraindication, and information about each prescribed medication that causes a drug interaction. The Reference at the bottom of the window displays the citation for the DUR information. You must acknowledge all drug interactions and select a reason for overriding the warning before you can add the medication. The medication interaction process displays drug interactions according to the display levels set for the system and a specific user. The medication interaction process does not perform checks on user-defined medications. If the Enterprise option to check for interactions across practices is enabled, the medication interaction process checks for possible interactions across all practices. If you cancel out of the Drug Interaction window, your action is audi

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Drug to Allergy Interaction

A new medication prescribed to a patient can have a negative interaction with a patient's medication allergy. If such interaction occurs the Drug Interaction window opens. The Drug Interaction window lists the medication that caused the interaction, and information for each listed patient medication allergy. The Reference at the bottom of the window displays the citation for the DUR information. You must acknowledge all notices listed in the Drug Interaction window and specify the reason for overriding the warning. The medication interaction process displays drug interactions according to the display levels set for the system and a specific user. The medication interaction process does not perform checks on user-defined medications or user-define allergies. If the Enterprise option to check for interactions across practices is enabled, the medication interaction process checks for possible interactions across all practices. If you cancel out of the Drug Interaction window, your action

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Drug to Drug Interaction

A new medication prescribed to a patient can have a negative interaction with another medication that has been previously prescribed to the patient. If such interaction occurs the Drug Interaction window opens. The window specifies the particular medication that caused the interaction, and information about each prescribed medication that causes the interaction. The Reference at the bottom of the window displays the citation for the DUR information. You must acknowledge all drug interactions and select a reason for overriding the warning before you can add the medication. The medication interaction process displays drug interactions according to the display levels set for the system and a specific user. The medication interaction process does not perform checks on user-defined medications. If the Enterprise option to check for interactions across practices is enabled, the medication interaction process checks for possible interactions across all practices. If you cancel out of the Drug

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Create List of Medication Interaction Override Reasons

You can create a list of override reasons to choose from to acknowledge drug interactions. Access NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From the Tools menu, select Preferences. The Preferences window opens. Select the Medications tab. Select DUR. The DUR Preferences window opens. DUR Preferences Enter an override reason. Select Add. To set up a specific order for the override reasons, select Move Up or Move Down as applicable. DUR Preferences Select OK. Parent topic: Medication Interactions

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Pediatric Precautions

Pediatric Precautions occur on medications for patient who are under 18 years of age. In cases of contraindication, the DUR displays the following information: Severity level of the precaution, age range for which the precaution applies, precaution narrative where a single ingredient may have multiple precautions if other precautions exist for different age groups. Pediatric Precautions drug utilization review includes system and user-level preferences that are identical in structure to the regular DUR preferences. You must acknowledge all drug interactions and select a reason for overriding the warning before you can add the medication. The medication interaction process displays drug interactions according to the display levels set for the system and a specific user. The medication interaction process does not perform checks on user-defined medications. If the Enterprise option to check for interactions across practices is enabled, the medication interaction process checks for possib

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Medication Duplication

A medication prescribed to a patient could be already prescribed to the patient. If such instance occurs the Drug Interaction window opens. The window lists the duplicate medication. You must acknowledge all drug interactions and select a reason for overriding the warning before you can add the medication. The medication interaction process displays drug interactions according to the display levels set for the system and a specific user. The medication interaction process does not perform checks on user-defined medications. If the Enterprise option to check for interactions across practices is enabled, the medication interaction process checks for possible interactions across all practices. If you cancel out of the Drug Interaction window, your action is audited and you must enter a reason. Drug Interaction Parent topic: Medication Interactions Related concepts Acknowledging Interactions

Enter a Reason for Cancelation of Drug Interactions

Recommendations

Disease Contraindication

Drug to Allergy Interaction

Drug to Drug Interaction

Create List of Medication Interaction Override Reasons

Pediatric Precautions

Medication Duplication

Disease Contraindication

Drug to Allergy Interaction

Drug to Drug Interaction

Create List of Medication Interaction Override Reasons

Pediatric Precautions

Medication Duplication