A documentation system that allows for minimizing the risk of medication errors is the:
1. Electronic medical record.
2. Problem-oriented medical record.
3. Problem, intervention, evaluation system.
4. Focus system.
Electronic medical record.
Rationale: The electronic medical record decreases errors and allows for the reconciliation of the client's medications on admission, daily, and on discharge. The five components of the problem-oriented medical record are baseline data, a problem list, a plan of care for each problem, multidisciplinary progress notes, and a discharge summary. The problem, intervention, and evaluation system consists of a list of the client's problems, followed by the interventions taken to alleviate the problem, and lastly the evaluation of the client's response to the intervention. The focus system documentation system focuses on a data-action-response format. Medication error prevention is not discussed with the focus system.
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