Re: [Health] Confusion about DOSE and DOSE UNIT

[Khurram Shahzad]

Dear Luis,

Thanks for the response.

    On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Khurram

On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 11:12:31 +0500
Khurram Shahzad <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Our doctors have some confusion regarding the 'dose' and 'dose unit'.
>
> For example a doctor selected a medicine 'Calamox' which is a
> suspension of 156.25mg administered orally; following fields are
> automatically filled on the prescription line:
>
> Medicine: Calamox
> Dose: 156.25
> Dose Unit: mg
> Form: Suspension
>
> Thus the 'Dose' is filled with the strength of the suspension and
> unit is the unit of the strength.
>

Right. The default dose, unit, form and admin route are taken from the
medicament model.

> Now the doctor wants to prescribe 5 ml, 3 times a day to a patient.
> How can that be done? Do we need to have two more columns in the
> prescription line for this?

You specify that on the "Frequency" column, directly from the tree
(list) view. You have the most common admin frequencies already, but GNU
Health prescription allows you to specify custom frequencies.

We can select '3 times a day' from the 'Frequency' column. But where to enter '5 ml' which may vary depending on age of the patient. Please note that we can manage entry of '2 tablets' or '3 capsules' by using 'X' in detail view of prescription line. It would really be nice if we can have some thing like 'X' for solutions where we can enter '5 ml' or anything like it.

 

>
> Since most of the patients can not understand '5 ml', the doctor
> would like to prescribe '1 Tea Spoon'.

Notes for the patient can be place at medication at each prescription
line ("Comment" column), for the specific med, or globally at the notes
field.

>
> Thanking you in anticipation.
You're welcome ! Let us know if this helps.

Bests
Luis

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Regards,

Khurram.