FIND STATUS OF PHARMACY ORDERS ICR (4555)

Name

Value

NUMBER

4555

IA #

4555

DATE CREATED

2006/03/15

CUSTODIAL PACKAGE

PHARMACY DATA MANAGEMENT

USAGE

Private

TYPE

Routine

ROUTINE

PSSORUTE

NAME

FIND STATUS OF PHARMACY ORDERS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this call is to provide the status of
any Pharmacy order. The order could be Inpatient Medications, Outpatient
Pharmacy or Non-VA Medications. Additionally, the $$DOSE API will be used to
reformat dosages and units as described below.

STATUS

Other

KEYWORDS

PSSORUTE

DURATION

Till Otherwise Agreed

PSSORUTE

COMPONENT/ENTRY POINT

COMPONENT DESCRIPTION

VARIABLES

STATUS

VARIABLES

TYPE

VARIABLES DESCRIPTION

PSSDFN

Input

The internal entry number of the patient.

PSSON

Input

The order number of the Pharmacy order, followed by a
';', followed by the package.

The order number expected is the PACKAGE REFERENCE field (#33) from the ORDER
file (#100).

status

Output

Returns the english description of the status. For
example: PENDING, DISCONTINUED, etc.

DOSE

Dosage/unit formatting API.

This API performs the following rules when reformatting the dosage:

1) Adds a leading 0 (zero) to decimal number less than 1 (one)
if it does not have one.

2) Adds a space between the numeric part of the dosage and the
unit (e.g. "100MG" is converted to "100 MG")

3) Automatically converts the units "cc" or "CC" to "ML" (e.g.
"25cc" is converted to "25 ML")

4) Automatically converts the abbreviations "u" and "U" to
"UNIT" (e.g. "2000U/5ML" is converted to "2000 UNIT/5 ML")

5) Does not apply the rules above to the following terms:"M2",
"PO2","D5W","12H","12HR","12HRS","24H","24HR","24HRS"

VARIABLES	TYPE	VARIABLES DESCRIPTION
DOSE	Input	Dosage to be formatted (e.g. 200MG, 10CC/.5MG, 2000U).
$$DOSE	Output	Reformatted dose (e.g. 200 MG, 20 ML/0.5 MG, 2000 UNIT).

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