Prescribing from a Local Guideline
To prescribe from a Guideline:
- From Consultation Manager, select the appropriate patient and the Guideline required, see Selecting Guidelines for details if required.
- Check any relevant information for prescribing on the selected Guideline.
- Locate the medication you wish to prescribe and double click on it.Training Tip - Where appropriate, Drug Check symbols display in front of the item name, select to view the details.
- The Prescribe Drug screen displays, select from Acute or Repeat.
- Select OK.
- Either:
- The Therapy - Add screen displays, check the details, complete as required and select OK, or
- If you selected a Preferred Drug, depending on your settings, the item may automatically display, see Preferred Drug List for details.
- The Drug Check screens display as per your settings, respond as appropriate to continue.
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Press F9 on your keyboard twice to print the prescription.
Note - If Auto-Select Drug Information for patient is switched on, whenever a drug regime is invoked within a Guideline, when it is selected for prescription printing, the drug information automatically prints too, see Consultation Manager Setup - Management for details.
Training Tip - Once prescribed, if the Active Repeat Masters (Drug class title) line is used, then a drug line under this heading that starts with the word Repeat is an issue and a line that starts with the drug name is a Repeat Master.
Depending on the way the drug was added to the Guideline, you have the following additional options:
Note - To print this topic select Print
in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.
