Managing Clarifying Orders

You can add a clarifying physician order to provide additional details about an existing order. For example, you receive a new medication order, however there is no dosage indicated. A clarification order can be written to include the medication dosage.

  1. From Case Details, click Orders, hover over Supplemental Orders and select Clarifying Orders.

  2. Select completed and click Sign, enter password, and click Accept.

  3. When the order is signed by the physician, under Actions, you can view or print the order.

    Note

    You can edit the physician order if it is an open or sent status.

  • Sent Date - enter date.

  • Signing Physician - select physician.

  • Order Effective Date - enter date.

  • Certification Period - select certification dates.

  • Verbal Order - select for verbal order.

  • Status - select status.

  • Signed Date - enter date.

  • Additional Physician - select physicians, as needed.

  • New Orders - enter new orders.

  • Discontinued Orders - enter discontinued orders.

  • To create a clarifying order that is linked to a specific order, hover over Actions link and click Clarifying order

  • For a clarifying order, the text within Locator 21 reads: Clarifying order for ordered date.