Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

MAR Patient Not Scanned Override Reasons

A bar graph shows the override reasons why MAR Medication was not scanned. The reasons are listed in descending order. Reasons and number are listed followed by percentage of total 4 month actions.

• Late documentation: (6764) 5.2%
• Hold: (2964) 2.5%
• Patient not available/sleeping: (2843) 2.5%
• Damaged barcode: (1198) 1%
• Shift total: (770) .8%
• Unidentified barcode: (763) .8%
• Pend stop: (352) <0.5%
• MD order: (243) <0.5%
• Error: (127) <0.5%
• No patient wristband: (42) <0.5%
• Medication removal/patches: (25) <0.5%