Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed and FreeDiams

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 01:41:46PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> I find myself disagreeing here… at least, on the question of strength. There 
> is little point to capture that a Brand exists, without capturing its 
> strength, because each Brand makes its drug (or drug combo) available only in 
> discrete strengths. Even when a range of strengths is available, not all 
> Brands provide all strengths. Therefore:
> 
>       say Brand A happens to be available in strengths of 5, 10 and 20mg
> 
>       say Brand B happens to be available in only 10mg
> 
> but we do not keep this information in ref.branded_drug, then it is entirely 
> easy to input into GNUmed that the patient is to take
> 
>               Brand B 5mg 1-0-0-1

If the strength of the ingredients was entered wrongly into
GNUmed, yes, then that is possible. If it was entered
correctly, then no, it is not possible.

This does not relate to whether strengths are stored in
ref.branded_drug or not.

Karsten
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