Best Practices: How to document medication refills?

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andyflces wrote on Friday, September 25, 2015:

What are the best practices related to documentation medication refill requests (i.e., via telephone)?

Thanks.

Andy

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fsgl wrote on Saturday, September 26, 2015:

Use e-Prescribe to send the refill to pharmacy. It’s faster than waiting to talk to the pharmacist or for that part of the menu of the pharmacy phone system to leave a verbal order. Allscripts has a feature which retains an old rx. Then it’s a simple matter of selecting it for a refill.

To document, use Prescription module. If we prescribe 3 bottles of Latanoprost with 4 refills, we would enter “L OU 3x4” & check the E-Prescription box.

This allows us to quickly check the date, drug, quantity, dosing regimen & number of refills in the future. It also fulfills the requirement for MU electronic prescription.