Rebuilding the Standing Prescription Renewal Orders.
Managing prescription renewal requests is a labor-intensive challenge in ambulatory care. In 2009, Vanderbilt University Medical Center developed clinic-specific standing prescription renewal orders that allowed nurses, under specific conditions, to authorize renewal requests. Formulary and authorization changes made maintaining these documents very challenging.
Author(s): Nelson, Scott D, Rector, Hayley H, Brashear, Daniel, Mathe, Janos L, Wen, Haomin, English, Stacey Lynn, Hedges, William, Lehmann, Christoph U, Ozdas-Weitkamp, Asli, Stenner, Shane P
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1675813