AllergyOrAdverseEvent

allergyoradverseevent best practices ✅ quality checks ensure proper allergy reporting the ncpdp script standard currently allows for the transmission of allergy or adverse event information in the optional allergyoradverseevent element transmit all of the reported drug and chemical allergies send either the “noknownallergies” element or the “allergies” element, never both example clinical relevance/rationale receiving only a portion of the patient allergy or adverse event profile may provide the receiver of the transaction with a false sense of security that they have all of the clinical information needed to appropriately verify the prescription this could lead to a patient allergy record not being added to the profile and not taken into consideration when dur and profile review are performed transmit standardized and codified information whenever possible to ensure automated processing and reduced human touchpoints it is acceptable to describe a patient's exposure or reaction in notes to pharmacy best practices for technology partners ensure the system does not allow both elements to be populated and transmitted in the same message