Figure 1.

Processing logic of the Advanced Dosing Model. A clinician initiates an order for a medication. ADM pre-processing logic verifies if dosing regions exist for this drug. If so, the system will retrieve the available patient information (chronological age, weight, and care area) and prompt the user for any additional information needed. Once all patient parameters are collected, the decision support algorithm will resolve the list of all potential dosing regions from the clinical knowledge base. If the algorithm successfully identifies 1 dosing region, it is presented to the clinician and made available for calculations and screening. If there are no dosing regions available for the requested medication and patient parameters, or multiple dosing regions are found, the system exits the ADM model and the clinician is prompted to enter a medication dose manually.