Actually i have rarely come across a medicine in VA PRODUCT (50.68) whose VA PRINT NAME differed from its NAME field, but in the case you mentioned about acetic acid there was a little difference. VA PRINT NAME is supposedly the same as NAME or its abridged form, but the problem is that on orders/prescriptions there is one field displaying the orderable item name and its dosage whereas there is another field of 'dispense drug' which displays the VA PRODUCT name and unfortunately here the name comes from VA PRINT NAME :-)
Regards,
Salman Akram
Software Engineer
Kabot International
On 7/19/06, Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone know what is field VA PRINT NAME in File VA PRODUCT
(50.68) used for?
This field (5) is restricted to 40 characters in length, while the .01
field NAME is allowed to be 64 characters. I am having a hard time
shorting the names I import from the FDA database to fit in just 40
chars.. This is because the pattern of names for the .01 field is:
GENERIC NAME (TRADE NAME) STRENGTH UNITS
and if there are multiple ingredients, then the GENERIC name is a list
of all the ingredients, e.g.
ACETIC ACID/HYDROCORTISONE (OTOSOL HC)
Well, it doesn't take much to reach 64 characters with this.
My first approach was to use dots '...' to shorten the text, but this
doesn't always work and key distinguishing parts of the name can get
cut off.
So I am now writing code to look for words that can be abbreviated and
do this automatically if possible.
But it is still hard to get down to 40 characters without just cutting
information out of the name.
So my real question is, is this name somehow used when printing out
prescriptions?
Thanks
Kevin
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