Standard Duration of Med Orders

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Joel W Daniel
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Standard Duration of Med Orders

CoxHealth is reassessing the current default duration (in the EHR) of a vast majority of chronic meds … think Lisinopril, gabapentin etc. We have it set at 42 days but it seems inadequate as we have more and more patients staying longer than that for varied reasons. CMS CoP state that there does have to be a stated duration, and accrediting bodies have stated that it needs to be no longer than 1 year.

Questions:
a.) What is your current default duration?
b.) Are you aware of the reasoning behind that choice?
c.) Type of facilities/health-system?

I will be happy to send out a tabulated report of the responses (without the name of the facility) if I get sufficient responses from my various posts.

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