anyway ) you may be aware of the situation of the dispensation of drugs from
a pharmacy in an oncology environment.
Cancer patient are treated based on chemotherapy regimes know as protocols.
The protocols are a series of drug treatments and radio therapy treatments
delivered over time, usually weeks / months. We are seeing up to 80 patients
per day, and as a result do not physically have the time in the day to
generate pharmacy scripts for patients over a period of say 6 weeks. So
instead we fill out a treatment sheet for the patient, this treatment sheet
outlines the exact treatment, and drug cycles the patient will have over the
time they are with us.
So how all this works:
Patients treatment sheet is sent to the pharmacy, pharmacist dispenses drugs
based on the doctors treatment sheet ( that we sign each time ). At the end
of the week, the pharmacy sends down a paper copy of our "owing scripts". We
then take these 300 ( approx ) pages, and sit there until the early hours of
the morning writing the scripts one by one in a script writing package.
I though, if the pharmacy could generate the owing list of drugs, why
couldn't we have them as an electronic file. The best they could do was a
csv file ( a limitation of the antiquated dispensing software most
pharmacies use ), so I figure, if I can write something in ColdFusion to
accept the upload of this file, secure within our network, the pharmacy
could upload the file, our doctors could then log into the site, press a
button the generate an electronic version of their owing scripts, and press
print to generate a 300 page print job, and wala you have scripts without
having to pen them manually.
I am open to suggestions from anyone with multiple medical degrees on this
one !
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From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 20 September 2004 3:28 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Looping
without answering your ? i will tell u this
i have 3 medical degrees and ur dipping into something quite serious here
and i wouldnt be trusting my ass to a csv file!!
i would start thinking but writing this to a db with every error catcher u
can find. Cause if there is a prob, its u they come after and they dont mess
around
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Brant Winter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:32:43 +1000
>Now that I have gotten myself to the point I needed to be at this morning
>when I started on this again, I can ask the question I needed to ask 6
hours
>ago !
>
>
>
>I have all of this data, each row has patient details, doctors details, and
>a drug type, qty, dosage etc. I need to generate "electronic" prescriptions
>from this data.
>
>
>
>The basic rules for writing a script are:
>
>
>
>3 Drugs per script only
>
>No drug can be prescribed twice in one day
>
>Dangerous Drugs, and Authority drugs are on separate scripts again
>
>
>
>My intention was to use the cfhttp tag to get the csv data and loop
through
>it, starting with the first entry I would make a structure, this would
>resemble an actual piece of paper being a script. This structure would have
>elements being Doctors name, Prescriber Number, Patient Name etc etc, and
>for each of the three drugs on this one piece of paper ( structure ) I
would
>have an array within the structure. Once I built up the structure, I could
>then dump it into DB tables for retrieval later on.
>
>
>
>The hardest parts I am stumbling on are:
>
>Grabbing the patients and looping through the rest of the data. 200 lines
of
>data = "" drugs. Do I start the loop, and then try and match the patient
>name to the other 200 rows, count how many occurrences there are on that
>same day from the first row of data ??? If there are 1 - 3 drugs for this
>patient I only need one structure, but if there are 4 - 6 drugs I now need
2
>structures.
>
>
>
>Araghaghagha just thinking about it doing my head in !
>
>
>
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