Reportable Medical Event Screen (10 CFR 35.3045)

Screen an administration against the NRC medical event criteria in 10 CFR 35.3045.

Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Resulted from patient intervention
No
Wrong drug, route, individual or mode, or a leaking source
None of these
Kind of dose estimated
Effective dose equivalent (threshold 5 rem)
Dose difference from prescribed, or the dose from a wrong administration
8 rem
Prescribed total dose or dosage
100
Delivered total dose or dosage
125

Result: Meets (a)(1)(i): a medical event under 10 CFR 35.3045.

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What you enter

  • Resulted from patient intervention
  • Unintended permanent functional damage, per a physician (with patient intervention)
  • Wrong drug, route, individual or mode, or a leaking source
  • Kind of dose estimated
  • Dose difference from prescribed, or the dose from a wrong administration
  • Prescribed total dose or dosage
  • Delivered total dose or dosage (same unit)
  • Dosage outside the prescribed range
The other 5 fields
  • Prescribed dose for one fraction
  • Delivered dose for that fraction
  • Dose to a site other than the treatment site
  • Dose expected at that site
  • Date of discovery (YYYY-MM-DD, optional)
How this is calculated

Citation

10 CFR 35.3045(a)(1), (b), (c), (d) and (e): the dose-difference, wrong-administration and other-site tests for a medical event, the patient-intervention paragraph, and the next-calendar-day telephone, 15-day written and 24-hour notification deadlines. Read the source ↗

A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.

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Built by Clay Good. Source on GitHub.