Table 2.

Safety and Decision Support Features Incorporated Into Chemotherapy CPOE

Feature
Predefined regimens and base doses
Acceptance of generic drug names only
Use of Tallman lettering for drug names
Weight change alert
Automatically calculated doses
Ability to incorporate capping of doses for specific drug
Maximum dose checking in pharmacy module
Automatically calculated dose modifications
Restriction of routes of administration and units choices for each drug
Recent lab results on order form
Allergy and drug-drug interaction alerts
Duplicate order alert
Access to pharmacy system to view prior dispensed doses
Direct link to investigational protocols from order form
Alert if chemotherapy drug discontinued after last cycle was ordered
Ability to copy entire order set forward to next cycle without “rewriting”
Implementation of standard supportive medication and hydration order sets

Abbreviation: CPOE, computerized provider order entry.