Discontinue medications for a patient

Discontinue a specific medication

1. In the Patient component, select a patient.
2. Go to Clinical>Medications.
3. Select Discontinue a Specific Medication
4. Select the medication you want to discontinue.
5. In the End Date column, enter the date to discontinue the medication. Note: The end date earlier than the start date is allowed. If you are using MAR (About MAR), the medication end date and time must be not earlier than the last documented MAR date and time for this medication.
6. Save your changes.
7. Click the Modification Details tab.
8. If the physician ending the medication is other than the primary physician, enter the ID of the physician who ended the medication in the End Physician ID field.
9. If you do not want a supplemental order to be created for ending this medication, select the No End Supplement check box.
10. If needed, enter the reason for discontinuing the medication in the Reason for End text box, up to 100 free-text characters.
11. Save your changes.

Discontinue several medications at once

1. In the Patient component, select a patient.
2. Go to Clinical>Medications.
3. Select Discontinuing Several Medications at Once.
4. Click Discontinue All.
5. Specify the end date for discontinuing medications.
6. Note: The end date earlier than the start date is allowed. If you are using MAR, the medication end date and time must be not earlier than the last documented MAR date and time for this medication.
7. Specify the end physician.
8. Select the medications to be discontinued.
   Note: Medications with the 'Held' status also appear in this dialog and can be discontinued.
9. For each medication, select whether to generate an end supplemental order.
10. Click OK.
11. Save your changes. 
    Note: The Discontinue All functionality does not cover medication groups and they should be ended separately.

Associated pages

• About Medication
• About medications and Medi-Span usage
• About medication kits
• About end medications as of transfer date
• About medication edit period
• About editing medications
• About medication groups
• About alternate physician on clinical item entry screen
• About reviewing medications on readmission
• About Medi-Span prior adverse reaction check window
• About medication kits dialog
• Medications window – Medication Evaluation tab
• Medications window – Medication Order Entry tab
• Medications window – Modification Details tab
• Medications window – Medication Hold and Resumption Details tab
• Medications window – Hold/Resume History tab
• Medications window – Medication Group Details tab
• About drug/drug interactions dialog
• About medication show fields dialog
• About select medication dialog
• About medication entry dialog
• Evaluate medications
• Enter medications for patient
• Edit medications for patient
• Enter special instructions for new medication
• Add special instructions to existing medication
• Enter medication groups for patient
• Resume held medications for patient
• Delete medications for patient
• Check medication interactions
• Check prior adverse reactions to medication
• Add medication kits to a patient
• Add new medication