ordinerat

Ordinerat is a Swedish term that functions as the past participle of the verb ordinerar, meaning to prescribe or to issue an order. In medical and health-care contexts, ordinerat indicates that a physician or other authorized clinician has issued a formal prescription or treatment directive for a patient. The word is commonly used in medical records, discharge summaries, and patient instructions to signal that a medicine, dosage, or procedure has been officially approved and should be followed.

In practice, a doctor may ordinerat a range of measures, from medications and dosages to rehabilitative exercises or dietary restrictions. The exact contents of an ordination typically include the substance or intervention, the recommended dosage or schedule, and the duration of the order. Because prescribing is regulated, ordinerat information should be clear and traceable in the patient’s chart or electronic health record.

Etymology and usage notes: ordinerar derives from the Latin ordinare, meaning to arrange or to order, and has cognates in other European languages. In Swedish, ordinerat is the participle form used to describe something that has been prescribed or ordered. The term is primarily used in medical contexts; in religious or other formal contexts a different sense of “ordination” may apply.

See also: recept (prescription), läkemedelsordination (medicine ordering), ordination (as a separate sense in other languages).