The Duplicate Therapy concept allows you to specify the maximum number (0, 1, 2, 3 or 4) of duplicate therapy matches that can occur within a therapeutic class without creating an order check. A ‘0’ duplicate allowance means only 1 medication from that therapeutic class can be on the patient profile without getting an order check (zero duplication). If a second drug from that class is added the provider gets the order check. If the allowance is ‘1’, two drugs can be on the patient profile at once, the 3rd drug added would get the check (one duplication), etc.
The only type of Duplicate Therapy customization allowed is to increase or lower the duplicate therapy allowance for a therapeutic category.
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