Alert for Excessive Dose Units Dispensed

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Jordan Anderson
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Alert for Excessive Dose Units Dispensed

Good morning! We have had several events in which an order was verified for a medication stocked in a dispensing cabinet with a high dose/excessive dose units (e.g. 10 unit-dose oral syringes). I have seen a functionality in Cerner before in which a pharmacist receives a personalized alert when verifying an alert that is dispensing an excessive amount of tablets/syringes/etc. Does anyone have an alert like this built in Epic? If so, what is your threshold for the alert to fire to a pharmacist? Thank you! Jordan Anderson, Driscoll Children's Hospital

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