5. Print MAR's
- Anthony Campana
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Overview
The Print MAR screen is used to prepare and print MAR sheets for the LTC facility (Nursing Home) to help with medication dispensing. To ensure a patient appears in Print MAR, they must be assigned to an LTC facility, and their prescriptions should be in the LTC Rx Manager.
To access the Print MAR Screen, click on LTC 5. Print MAR's.
The report can be narrowed down by multiple options
Generate For: Choose if you'd like to generate this report for the LTC Facility or Patient.
LTC Facility/Patient Name: Enter the name of the LTC facility or the patient according to the above selection.
Multi Select (Select Generate for: Facility) : Allows you to select multiple LTC facilities and generate patient list when selecting Yes.
Form Name: Indicate which form from the LTC Form Manager you’d like this report printed on.
From / To Date Range: Choose the date range for this report by entering it in manually or selecting the dates with the calendar buttons.
Sort Rxs By: Indicate how you'd like to sort prescriptions that display. You can choose to sort by Rx Number, Admin Times, or by Drug Name
More Options: Additional filters for report
Ignore Discontinue Date: Indicate whether or not to ignore the discontinue date.
Display Controls First: Indicate if you'd like to display control medication first on the report.
PRN Filter: This will filter the report and display as needed prescriptions based on the selection. You can choose All Prescriptions, PRNs only or Non-PRNs only.
PRN Display Order: Indicate how you'd like to order the display of as needed prescriptions. You can choose Normal, Display PRNs After Other Meds, or Display PRNs Before Other Meds.
Allergies To Print on MAR: Indicate how you'd like to treat the printing of allergies on MAR forms. You can choose to Use Default Option For Nursing Home, both Patient Nursing Home and Regular Allergies, Patient Nursing Home, or Regular Allergies.
Treatment Filter: Select this filter to show All Prescriptions, Treatments only or Non-Treatments only.
Include if latest fill is on Hold: Indicate if you'd like to include prescriptions where the latest fill is on Hold status.
Select Time Range: Select this check box if you'd like to narrow the report down to specific hourly time ranges. Indicate these times after the check box has been checked.
Double-spacing for Print Profile: Indicate if you'd like profile prints to be double spaced.
Include Misc. Physician Order: Indicate if you'd like miscellaneous physician orders to display in the report.
When you've made all desired selections, click "Generate Report". After the report's been generated it will display all the MAR prescriptions for their corresponding patients under the name header. Any incorrect field will be highlighted in red and can be clicked to adjust its value.
Prescription Dosage Information
If you click on the ‘Sig instructions’ or ‘Times’ portion of a blank row or when there is scheduled information in there you can pull up the prescription dosage information and set the schedule. In this prompt we can make the modifications for each dose based on time, quantity, frequency. There are other additional filters such as allowing the dosage information to be printed on MAR, be discontinued, which MAR form we can print it from, and adjusting the sig.
Print MAR’s
When you're ready to print MARs, select any and all prescriptions you'd like to print. This can be done individually, by patient and clicking the check box next to their name, or selecting all by clicking the check box above the Generate Report button to Select All.
When all the appropriate prescriptions have been selected simply click "Print MARs" to print the forms.
If you'd like to print a summary profile for the MAR prescriptions, click the "Print Profiles" button as well as can “Print Leaflets” which will provide a print out drug information for selected drugs. .
If you’d like to print a report with more specific information for the MAR prescriptions, click the “Export” button. This will open a prompt to select various variables to include in your exported report. This can be exported as either Microsoft Excel, .CSV, or Text File.
The user may also clear all the data displayed on the screen by clicking the ‘Clear’ button or by pressing the ‘Enter’ key when the ‘Clear’ button is highlighted.
MAR Form Information
The layout of the printed MAR highly depends on the Form Code selected in the LTC Form Manager. There are various form codes and the forms with -A,B,C etc.. are custom variations of the original form code made by pharmacies. It is dependent on the decision of the pharmacy and LTC which form code they would like to implement. BestRx recommends you choose a form that suits your needs on our approved MAR form vendor list.
To access our approved Mar Form Vendor List click on top tab Help Important Contact Info.
Print MAR - Print Out Example
Sending E-MAR Data
When generating a list of patients on this screen for a nursing home that is configured to receive messages through the Prescriber’s Connection or SureScripts E-MAR types, a button will appear allowing the pharmacy to send the generated data to the facility.