Susan, I am continuing to try to impress the same point to Meditech in regards to IV order types. I have had the task open for almost a year, and Meditech is steadfast that their logic is appropriate. I can't think of any reason to have the volume change. Here is how the rate and duration fields work. The documentation in the order type dictionary is no longer correct. If the pharmacist enters a rate, THAT field is considered "more important" than the duration or the volume because the pharmacist manually entered data into the rate field. So after the volume is calculated, if the user changes the duration, the rate won't change because that is "important". This also works the other way. If the pharmacists manually enters 8 hrs as the duration, the duration field is more "important" and an edit to the rate will change the volume. This becomes especially confusing during a copy and edit because the pharmacist entering the new order does not know which field was manually ente! red on the original order. I proposed to Meditech, at the very minimum, there should be an asterisk or something that indicates which field was manually entered. Then the pharmacists could be trained to change only that field.
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