A medical student writes a medication order on the chart of a 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg who has been admi…

Question

A medical student writes a medication order on the chart of a 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg who has been admitted with an asthma exacerbation. The order reads: 'Prednisolone 1.0 mg/kg PO mane x 3/7'. The child's measured weight is recorded on the front of the chart, the drug name is written in full and correctly spelled, and the order is legibly signed, dated and timed. Which one of the following features of this order carries the greatest risk of a tenfold dosing error?

Accepted Answer

Using a trailing zero after the whole number

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Abbreviating the duration as 3/7

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Abbreviating the route as PO

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Expressing the dose in mg/kg rather than mg

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Using the abbreviation mane for the frequency

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