Medications Questions and
correct ansers | Latest version
2024/2025
Information about medications is stored in the _____________ master file - ANSWER -ERX
Each medication record (ERX record) is a unique combination of what three pieces of information: -
ANSWER -Drug
Strength
Form
T/F: There is usually more than one ERX record for each medication - ANSWER -True because each
medication record is a unique combination of three pieces of information: drug, strength, and form.
T/F: There is only one medication record for Meperidine HCL - ANSWER -False, There are multiple
medication records, one for each combination of drug, strength, and form:
Meperidine HCL 100 MG PO TABS
Meperidine HCL 50 MG PO TABS
Meperidine HCL 10 MG/ML INJ
Meperidine HCL 25 MG/ML INJ
T/F: there are separate ERX records in the system for name-brand medications and their generic
equivalents. - ANSWER -true
what is a med load - ANSWER -process of importing ERX records into Epic system
Who are the most popular vendors for medication information - ANSWER -Medi-Span
First Databank (FDB)
What is a mixture medication - ANSWER -A mixture medication is a medication that is made by
pharmacists by combining
more than one component medication (also known as ingredients).
Each mixture medication has its own ________ which contains__________________ - ANSWER -ERX
record
information about the mixture and the needed ingredients
Each ingredient will also have_______________ - ANSWER -a record in ERX
How are mixture medications built? - ANSWER -manually by your Willow build teams
, Ingredients used in mixtures will be __________ - ANSWER -simple medications, which likely were
imported during med load.
t/f: While viewing a mixture medication record in Hyperspace, you can view the
ingredients of the mixture. - ANSWER -true
Information about medications is stored in the _____________ master file. - ANSWER -ERX
There are multiple tables for the ERX master file that contain _________________, ______________
information about medications. - ANSWER -no-add
single response
The ______________ table holds the most frequently needed information - ANSWER -
clarity_medication
Many of the items in Clarity_medication are also found in ________ and ______________ - ANSWER
-rx_med_one
rx_med_two
t/f: both simple medications and mixtures can be found in clarity_medication - ANSWER -true
what is thera_class_c - ANSWER -the accepted purpose of the drug, such as 'anti-infective' or 'anti-
psychotic'.
t/f: A medication can have multiple therapeutic classes - ANSWER -true.
clarity_medication.thera_class_c contains the first listed therapeutic class. The full list for this
medication can be found int he RX_med_cls_thera table.
full list for medication with multiple pharmaceutical classes can be found in the _____ table -
ANSWER -rx_med_cls_phrm
A medication can have multiple
pharmaceutical subclasses. This column
only contains the first listed
pharmaceutical subclass. The full list for
this medication can be found in the ___________ table - ANSWER -column is pharm_subclass_c;
table is rx_med_subcls
A medication can have multiple
pharmaceutical subclasses. This column
only contains the first listed
pharmaceutical class. The full list for
this medication can also be found in the ________ table - ANSWER -column is pharm_class_c; table
is rx_med_cls_phrm
Same data for simple_generic_c can be found in _________ while the full list for this medication can
be found in ________________ - ANSWER -rx_med_two