Re: [Gnumed-devel] Medication errors related to drug names, and the approach of TALLman lettering

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-09-05, at 4:12 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

>>  At
>> this time, scientific studies do not support the use of tall
>> man letters when presenting drug names to patients.
> 
> This latter suggestion is something for which there's no
> support in GNUmed atm.

Current placeholders will (I think) output literally what is in the patient's 
record.

Dare I suggest a placeholder which outputs case-adjusted medication names

        initcap(description) for fk_drug_component
                --> ref.lnk_substance2brand.pk
                --> ref.branded_drug.description

        lower(description) for fk_substance
                --> ref.consumable_substance. description

??

The alternative is to take the view that just because there is no evidence 
(yet) in support of such presentation of names to patients, maybe there is no 
harm. Maybe someone else in the home has one of the other drugs which can be 
confused (and perhaps a single patient could be on both).

-- Jim