Another small victory for the metric system in heathcare! I wote to the author
of Global RPh, an extremely useful Web site for pharmacists' drug information.
Within its armaementarium are quite a number of calculators for things like
body service area, creatinine clearance, and other values. When you first get
to each of these calculators, the default measurement units are kilograms for
weight, but INCHES for height! This might be dangerous! So, yesterday, I
finally broke down and wrote the author, asking him to please change the
default for height to centimeters. As you can see, he agreed.
----- Original Message -----
From: D. McAuley, GlobalRPh
To: [email protected]
Sent: 29 July, 2009 06:42
Subject: Re: default units for height
Hello Paul,
In the past I tried to keep everyone happy.... however, I think its time
to have default metric selections. It will probably be some time next
week before these changes are made.
Thank you for the suggestion....
Dave
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David McAuley, Pharm.D., R.Ph.
GlobalRPh Inc.
[email protected]
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--- On Mon, 7/27/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: default units for height
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 6:38 PM
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
([email protected]) on Monday, July 27, 2009 at 20:38:10
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subject1: Globalrph form
MessageType: Suggestion
comments: On your calculators, please consider setting your Web sites
default units for patient height to centimeters instead of inches. Your default
units for weight are in kilograms. Only metric units should be used for patient
parameters.
name: Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
verifyemail: [email protected]
Telephone: (432)528-7714
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