About the Feature
Order sets is a feature in the Medications tab of Bahmni's Clinical modulei. Using Order Sets, the clinicians can order a set of drugs/medications together. An order set be added, edited, stopped or refilled using the Treatments tab. This feature has been designed to save the users time and effort, by ordering a set of drugs with predefined dosages, routes and frequencies. While authoring the order set, if the base dose of the drug is set to dosage units "mg/kg" or "mg/m2", then while ordering the order sets, the dose of the drug to be given to the patient is automatically calculated based on the patient's weight or body surface area (BSA).
Where is it Used?
Order sets is used by the clinicians to prescribe a pre-defined set of medicines to the patient.
Benefits
- Order sets provides an easy way to order drugs for a patient.
- The clinician can quickly and easily order sets of drugs.
- With pre-defined sets of drug orders, there are less chances of the clinician missing a drug while ordering many drugs together.
- The dosage of the drugs can be automatically calculates based on the patient's Body Surface Area (BSA) of Weight.
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