closed order book

A practice in teaching hospitals in which only the intern—a physician in the first year of post-medical school training—can write therapeutic orders for hospitalised patients in his/her care

closed order book

Graduate education A practice in teaching hospitals in which only the intern–a physician in the first yr of post-medical school training—can write therapeutic orders for hospitalized Pts in his/her care. See Libby Zion, 405 regulations.