Specific Drug Warnings

The following rules apply to drug checks on specific patients:

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Lactation

For lactation to be recognised by the automatic drug check one of the following should be recorded on the patient's record:

There is a live birth recorded in the Pregnancy Outcome - Mother SDA with an event date within the last two years.
One of the following Read codes has been entered in Medical History within the last two years:
- 1551. 00 H/O Infant Breast Fed
- 26B6 00 O/E Lactating Breast
- 62E3. 00 Feeding Intervention Breast
- 62P1. 00 Breast Fed
- 62P5. 00 Breast Feeding Started
- ZV241 00 Examination of Lactating Mother
- L46.. 00 Obstetric Breast and Lactation Disorders NOS

Pregnancy

For pregnancy to be recognised by the automatic drug check one of the following two conditions must be met:

A Medical History entry of Read code 62... 00 Patient Pregnant (or any of its sub-codes) is recorded on the patient's record within the last year, which is not followed by a Pregnancy Outcome entry.

Important - If 62... 00 or any of its sub-codes is entered in any other SDA than Medical History, they are not picked up by the drug check.

There is an LMP date recorded in the last year in the Pregnancy Dates SDA which is not followed by a Pregnancy Outcome entry.

Note - Pregnancy Outcome should be recorded in the Outcome SDA so that it is recognised by the Drug Check.

Age-related Prescribing Precautions

When prescribing for patients under one month old, age-related prescribing precautions do not display. To remind you to check for precautions elsewhere a new message displays in the comments section of the Drug Check Results screen mirroring the warning that displays in the top half:

See Methotrexate Warnings for further details

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