Order Sets in OpenMRS - What Are Your Needs and Use Cases?

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This is a very helpful feature to have! Particularly in emergencies.

Speaking as a doctor, I could think of a few use cases like:

  1. Surgical Profile: Whenever a patient is admitted for surgery, we run a few basic labs regardless of the specifics;

    • Complete Blood Picture
    • Liver Function Test
    • Renal Function Test
    • Viral/Infectious screen: HbsAg, HIV, HCV, VDRL
    • Blood Grouping
    • PT-INR
    • RBS
    • Urinalysis
    • X-Ray chest PA view
    • ECG etc

  2. MI(Myocardial Infarction) : Standard protocol like,

    • Aspirin
    • Clopidogrel (Or any similar anti platelet drug)
    • A beta blocker
    • A statin
    • An ACE inhibitor or ARB
    • Percutaneous angioplasty or Thrombolysis (Alteplase) etc

  3. Diabetic Keto Acidosis (DKA):

    • IV Fluids (NS)
    • Arterial Blood gas test
    • IV Potassium
    • IV Insulin
    • IV Dextrose
    • Hourly monitoring etc

You have many use cases like this. Order sets with instructions to nurses. Pre-op sets. etc etc

These order sets are derived from the standard management protocols for different conditions. So you could look into some frequent cases like I mentioned.

We could add a feature for hospitals or doctors to customize these based on the specialty, the specific cases they usually see and the local guidelines/protocols.