Adding and Maintaining Medication Reviews

This defines the default periods for Medication Review. Enter periods using the abbreviations D days, W weeks, M months, Y years, eg 6M six months, 2W two weeks.

• Date Offset: You first set up a medication review with a Setup Date. The Date Offset is the period in the future when you want to carry out the medication review and mark it as Review done. The default is 6 months, ie six months from the Setup Date. For example, if today is 1st April 2004, the date offset of 6 months would be 1st October 2004.
• Overdue Offset: The Medication Review becomes overdue once the period in the Date offset (eg 6 months) is reached from the Setup Date (ie six months from now). The default is 0 years. A typical setting of this would be +2w such that a review is marked as due in the month around the due date and as overdue subsequently. In the example above, the overdue offset is 14th October 2004.
• Due Offset: When the Medication Review is due, you want to be flagged before it becomes due. This is the date the flag starts, say 6 months from the Setup Date, minus 2 weeks (the default). In the current example, the Due Offset would be 17th September 2004.
• Default Read code: The default is 8B3S Medication Review.