Cube: Unit Dose Orders

Information Included:

Original Unit Dose orders for the entire VISN entered between

October 2002 – January 2010

Information Excluded:

Any Unit Dose orders that were renewed during the reporting period

Any patient whose last name begins with ‘ZZ’

Any patient with the first or last name of ‘TEST’

Structure

Measures / Description and Source
Number of Orders / Count of Unit Dose orders.
Elapsed Time in Hours / Elapsed time in hours from when the time the order was entered until the time the pharmacist verified it.
Average Elapsed Time in Hours / Elapsed time in hours / Number of Orders.
Order Number / Unit Dose order number from VISTA
VISTA File: 55 Sub-File 62 File Name: UNIT DOSE Field: .01
Order Date And Time / Date and time of the order
Verified Date And Time / Date and Time the order was verified by the pharmacist
Dimensions / Hierarchy / Description and Source
Elapsed Time of Order / Category
Elapsed Time / Grouping of elapsed time
Elapsed time in hours from when the time the order was entered until the time the pharmacist verified it.
Order Group / Order Group / Number of the order group. Combine this dimension with the Order Number measure to get a list of a patients orders
Drug Class / Drug Class
Drug
Dosage / Class of Drug. VISTA File: 50 File Name: DRUG Field: 26
Generic Drug Name. VISTA File: 50 File Name: DRUG Field: 0.01
Dosage of Drug. VISTA File: 50 File Name: DRUG Field: 0.01
Pharmacist / Pharmacist Name / Name of the Pharmacist that verified the order.
VISTA File: 55 Sub-File 62 File Name: UNIT DOSE Field: 18
Priority / Priority / Priority of the order.
VISTA File: 55 Sub-File 62 File Name: UNIT DOSE Field: 0.24
Pharmacist Shift / Work Shift / Derived from the date the pharmacist verified the order.
VISTA File: 55 Sub-File 62 File Name: UNIT DOSE Field: 19
Original Ward Location / Location Type
Ward Location / Grouping of ward locations
This is the ward the patient was residing on at the time the order was entered.
VISTA File: 55 Sub-File 62 File Name: UNIT DOSE Field: 9
Pharmacist Site / Site / Derived from where most of the orders were completed by the pharmacist.
Time / Month_Year / Calendar month the order was entered.
VISTA File: 55 Sub-File 62 File Name: UNIT DOSE Field: 27