Release 2

Release 2 of the software implements further features of the Graphical User Interface including validation of required fields, custom graphics on the interface as well as enhanced user navigation features. There are a number error and information dialogs throughout the program. Data entry in release 2 remains unchanged from in release 1, other than the validation. The date and time defaults to the current system time and date and allows the user to select the minutes in 10 minute increments. The year field show the current year and one year previous, this will all a user to enter an incident that occurred prior to January 1. The only areas a user may manually enter data are the description and the suggestion, all other fields are selected from predefined lists, some of which are loaded from the database.

The following data is entered or selected by the user:

• Time and date of the error or near miss
• brief description of the incident
• patient outcome, categorised from A to I
• whether or not an Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) occurred
• type of ADR and whether or not it has been reported to ADRAC, the user can access the Therapeutic Goods Administration website to report an ADR
• the drug or drugs involved in an incident, the error type and the actual error
• the probable cause of the incident
• any suggestions they may have to prevent the reported error from reoccurring.

Required fields are validated when the user clicks the next button, validated fields are the description, outcome, drug involved, error type and actual error. If an ADR has occurred then the ADR type is required the only other field that is validated is the probable cause where at least one must be selected. The final screen is a confirmation screen which allows the user to check their entries before submitting the error to the database, the user can navigate back to the screen they need to edit, make the required changes then navigate back to the final screen and enter the error to the database. A thank and confirmation dialog is produced to inform the user of their success. If for some reason the database connection is lost or not available an error message will be produced when the application attempts to connect to the database.

Administrator Section

The administrator section includes the following:

• Administrator authentication via a logon screen
• report generation
• add new item to tables in database
  • drugs
  • probable causes
  • ADR's
  • error types and actual errors
• change administrators password
• add new administrator and password

All new entries to the database are validated, if an item already exists in a table it cannot be entered a second time. The drug entry screen only allows entries in uppercase, all the other entry fileds restricted to 80 characters to prevent the database from being corrupted. As a security measure passwords can only be changed if a current username and password are provided first.

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