Order Specific Weight in Epic

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Diane Schultz
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Order Specific Weight in Epic

Currently epic allows an entry of a “treatment plan” weight but it applies to all drugs in the plan. We are exploring ways to allow provider to use a specific weight (e.g. adjusted weight) to apply to certain drugs in the plan without affecting the rest of the treatment.
If your institution is using EPIC, do you allow a provider to put in an “order-specific” weight to use with a specific drug in order to accommodate protocols that use different weights for different drugs and somehow you need to use a weight not already provided by epic?
If YES, have you had any safety events surrounding this functionality? If NO, have you not implemented due to safety or risk concerns?
Thank you for any advice in this area.