Re: [Gnumed-devel] Adding medication defaults

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:45:33AM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> Is there a reason why it must be absolutely necessary, in cal cases, to input 
> a
> 
>       Preparation
> 
> because
> 
> 1) in the case of something not approved of I will not, in
> every case, either know (or see value) to try to input
> information as to whether the thing is a capsule or a tablet
> etc
> 
> 2) even when it is something that I have prescribed (let
> alone whether it was something prescribed by another doctor
> involved in the care) I will not always know the form that
> is being taken … I sometimes consider myself lucky that
> the patient even brings a list, and the list never says
>  "tablet" or "capsule" and yet I can see value to inputting
> these medications into the list of substances that are being
> taken.

There surely is value to capture such pseudo preps as
"oral", "iv", "inhalation" or some such.

Karsten
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