Medication Review Options

You must first define the default periods for Medication Review. To define the default periods:

1. From Consultation Manager, select Consultation - Options - Setup.
2. Now, select the Therapy tab.
3. Enter the following 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. Other READ term options are listed in Adding a new Medication Review.
4. Select OK to save and close.

Medication reviews may have one of the following statuses:

• Outstanding - A medication review is needed at some time in the future.
• Due - A medication review due in the near future. What constitutes the near future is determined by a practice option. This default is set on the General tab of the setup dialog under Default Settings for Therapy and expressed as a date offset from the due date. The distributed default is -2w (entered as 2W), ie two weeks before the review due date.
• Overdue - A medication review due in the recent past. What constitutes the recent past is determined by a practice option. This default is also set on the General tab of the setup dialog under Default Settings for Therapy and expressed as a date offset from the due date. The distributed default is 0. A typical setting of this would be +2w (entered as 2W) such that a review is marked as due in the month around the due date and as overdue subsequently.
• Completed - A completed review is any review with a Date of Review.