The Picis Weight Based Dose Converter is designed for use by trained clinicians to calculate any individualpatient’s dose for a given agent based on a weight based determination by the clinician. Drug dosing for a patient must be made only after careful consideration of the full clinical status of the patient by the ordering clinician and the software provides no validation as to the appropriateness of the entered weight based dose.
An application software program, routines, and/or algorithms used as or in an information system to electronically receive, collect, store, manage, assist in analysis of, display, output, and distribute data, within or between healthcare facilities, to support the electronic registration and documentation of patient clinical data. It typically enables healthcare providers to review and update patient medical records, place orders (e.g., for medications, procedures, tests), and sometimes view multimedia data from many specialties. It is supplied for installation into a dedicated information system for patient health records, or existing mainframe or decentralized computers/networks.