The best way to best avoid inappropriate orders is to filter patients through exclusion inclusion criteria and formulate an individual risk profile for each patient using a combination of online prescribing risk matrixes and algorithmic risk formularies.

To reduce multiple orders of specific products, see below, we have coded a patient protection algorithm into our ordering system to ensure multiple high-risk medicines cannot be purchased within one order.

• Paracetamol / acetaminophen – a common medicine used in suicide.
• Pseudoephedrine – methamphetamine conversion risk.
• Dextromethorphan – opioid abuse potential.
• Pholcodine – opioid abuse potential.
• Promethazine – sedative abuse.
• Laxatives – weight loss.

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