Hi Andrew, Luis - An EHR product I worked on (commercial) did something very similar to Andrew's suggestion. We set it up so that when the administrator added a med 'resource', they would define the "units per dose" and "strength per dose" for the med.
Examples: Advil 200mg Tablets: units per dose = 1 tab and strength per dose = 200 mg ADENOSINE 6MG/2ML SYR: units per dose = 2ml and strength per dose = 6 mg This allowed us to easily calculate things like orders for 400 mg advil - 400/200 = 2 tabs for display in the eMAR. As I recall, where we struggled was in creating compounds, such as IVs or powders, though I'm failing to remember at the moment what the specific scenarios were. Regards, Brenton On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:12 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Luis for the insightful reply. > > We need to somehow develop the idea of > "Product Strength" (how much active ingredient is contained in an actual > dose > unit) and how we can create a medication product database/dataset which > will > allow interchangable calculations of dose in g/mg/microgram or > capsules/tablets/ml/doses. > > Prescribers need the flexibility to prescribe in mg > or capsules so GNU Health will need some sort of conversion > table/calculation > which will need to be configured for each medication product by a clinical > administrator. > > I attach a spreadsheet to illustrate what I mean. > > Over to you > to work out how best to do this computationally :-) > > Regards > > Andrew > > > >
