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Upon opening our application, the user is presented with a patient overview screen, which displays a list of patients, their locations, and any relevant alerts. A bar across the top displays the name of the application, the name and role (doctor or nurse) of the current user, and a button to add a new patient:
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Selecting a patient expands that patient's entry in the list vertically and brings up demographic, medical history, and allergy information in the sidebar on the right:

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The patient display consists of three tabs: "Overview," "Prescriptions" and "Administration" if the user is a doctor and two tabs: "Overview" and "Give Medication" for a nurse (the nurse view is not yet implemented). The Overview tab, which is the default, displays the following panels: 

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The Administration tab shows a list of upcoming doses of each prescribed medication, sorted by time to next dose, and a history of all medication given during the patient's stay. Each upcoming dose has a "done" button next to it, which the user can select to indicate that the drug was administered, and an "Undo" link reverses this action:

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The Prescriptions tab shows a list of currently prescribed medications along with the dosage, frequency, and start and stop times for each. For each prescription, a pencil icon indicates a button to edit the prescription, and an X button deletes the prescription (not yet implemented): Image Modified

An "Add prescription" button at the bottom of the list provides text fields for the new medication name and dosage, a dropdown selector for frequency, and datetime pickers for the start and end of the prescription (not yet added). The dropdown frequency selector specifically addresses a common issue we found in user testing, in which users were often confused by the format for medication frequency:

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