Guidance – Medication Line
Introduction
The Design Guidance – Medication Line
document provides you with both guidance and recommendations for the display of, and interaction with, information used to express a single medication. It enhances patient safety and clinical application usability by:
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Ensuring a consistent visual representation of medication information for all contexts, while providing the flexibility needed for specific contexts
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Providing clarity and simplicity for displaying medication information
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Mitigating risks of misinterpretation, and incorrect selection, of medication information
In February 2009, the document Design Guidance – Medication Line was updated. This version replaces all previous versions of the guidance for a medication line.
Summary
The guidance focuses on:
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Formatting generic drug and brand names
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Displaying dose and strength
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Displaying volume, rate and duration
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Attribute order
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Truncation, abbreviation, numbers and symbols
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Wrapping, line spacing, line breaks and separators