Re: [Gnumed-devel] clin_medication

[J Busser]

At 8:56 AM +0200 10/19/04, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  > There may be no perfect distinction among is_SR and/or is_CR, and it
> >  may come down to what people believe to be the useful (if any)
> >  distinctions being drawn.
> For me, the only reason this field is there is to allow for
> distinction between SR and standard forms of the SAME drug
> with the SAME name.

On further thought, I was responding in part to the specifics of "SR" 
since there are a variety of alternate designations, some are 
proprietary (even "SR" is part of a "trademarking" technique), but 
what they all have in common (be they "durules", MS "Contin" or other 
designation) is that they are *not* the regular form.

So something that more generically captures "not regular" or "special 
formulation" which is not always "sustained release" - one could 
potentially be dealing with a fast-release preparation ;-)