Settings: Patient safety profile

Per-area safety configuration — allergies, conditions, interaction thresholds, override policy.

Each area's eMAR has a patient safety profile that drives the safety checks. Open eMAR → More → Settings → Patient Safety to manage it.

Fields

  • Allergies — structured list. Use drug names ("amoxicillin") or class names ("penicillin", "NSAID") for class-level matching.

  • Medical conditions — free-text list captured for clinical context.

  • Contraindicated medications — explicit "do not give" list.

  • Interaction checking enabled — master switch. Off = no warnings.

  • Allergy/contraindication checking enabled — separate switch for the allergy branch.

  • Severity threshold — minimum interaction severity that surfaces. Default moderate. Options: minor / moderate / major / critical.

  • Allow interaction override — when off, ALL interaction blocks become hard (no recording, no override path).

  • Require override reason — when on, every override must carry a free-text justification.

Heads up — Disabling interaction or allergy checking turns off a real safety net. Do it only with a clinician's sign-off and document why in the area's About profile.

Profile vs sheet allergies

Allergies live in two places: this profile AND the patient_allergies free-text field on each MAR sheet (see Creating a MAR sheet). Both are checked. Keep them in sync.

Last updated 21 May 2026 · by eMAR migration · Suggest a feature or change to this article
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