William,
I think the question is /how/ they use UCUM. If it's just a question of
expressing '5 mg', that works out of the box. I would imagine that here
you are talking about the manufactured dose of one tablet / capsule /
etc, i.e. the manufacturer's point of view (what's printed on the box).
But do they say how to use UCUM for things like '3 x 5mg tablets' as a
dose? I imagine not, since that's the clinician/physician point of view
- where 'dose' means what's given to the patient, not the amount of a
drug in a given units of the product ...
- thomas
On 19/05/2016 14:07, William Goossen wrote:
Dear All,
The international pharmacy stakeholers, in particular EMA, FDA,
Canada, Japan, Australia have decided that All medicines units shall
be expressed in UCUM according ISO IDMP, in particular
EN ISO 11240, Health informatics — Identification of medicinal
products — Data elements and structures for the unique identification
and exchange of units of measurement.
Even if you would use some Snomed for this internal in a system you
will need to map e.g. for decision support that are defined based on
IDMP standards, medicinal product dictionaries that provide the
medicinal products and details, ICSR reporting, cross border
exchanges, logistics, insurance reimbursements and many more.
Recommendations can only be to adjust to the UCUM, or if you find
something awkward to adjust UCUM via the open community.
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