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MAR Medication Not Scanned Reasons

A bar graph shows the reasons why MAR Medication was not scanned. The reasons are listed in descending order. Reasons and number are listed followed by percentage of total 4 month actions.
- Late documentation: (11816) 9%
- Hold: (7572) 6%
- No response: (4689) 3%
- Damaged barcode: (2414) 2%
- No barcode: (1785) 1.5%
- Unidentified barcode: (1359) 1%
- Pyxis pull: (1170) 0.7%
- MD order: (878) 0.5%
- Shift total: (505) <0.5%
- Broken: notify: 8325 (131) <0.5%
- Error: (119) <0.5%
- Pend stop: (113) <0.5%
- Patient's own med: (92) <0.5%
- Dose/Rate change: (62) <0.5%
- Stat med admin: (51) <0.5%
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