Low body weight adults- drug/dose warnings

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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 17:55
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Lindsey M Eick
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Low body weight adults- drug/dose warnings

We have had a handful of medication errors associated with very low body weight adults (<40kg). We currently use Epic as our EHR and FDB as our drug/data vendor and there are no dose/weight warnings for our adult patients on most medications. I don't want to create an alert for every time a medication is ordered as that would cause alert fatigue. Has anyone encountered this issue and figured out a potential solution?
Thanks!
Lindsey

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