Weight in Radiology

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Kelsie Ophus
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Weight in Radiology

Hello All,

Based on ISMP best practice, patient weights should be documented in admission and during each appropriate outpatient or emergency encounter.

*Appropriate = encounter where patient being seen by licensed independent practitioner (excluding emergencies where delay may cause harm). Encounters that involved lab and other services where medications are not prescribed or administered would be considered an exclusion.

Do your facilities require a weight to be entered during radiology/nuc med/etc encounters? This seems like those would fit into that definition but I am getting question from radiology department about appropriateness.

Thanks!
Kelsie