Re: [Gnumed-devel] Medications difficulty

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:58:47PM +0000, Vaibhav Banait wrote:

> For those who do not have readymade database for
> tradenames,

One might, at least, import the English INN data pack. That
won't give trade names but it will provide lots of
substances.

> dealing with medications is extremely difficult
> especially in initial few days to month as they have to keep
> adding trade names and dosage every time dealing with the
> patients in OPD.

When that's something that happens very often it is truly
prudent to make this a one-time task and assign a member of
staff a few hours adding drugs.

The ideal solution would be to create a data pack.

> This can be eased by allowing
> addition of substance through child gui in trade name gui

It already (now) does.

Do you think it should be accessible from the list of
branded drugs as well ?

> or allowing a free text with warnings pop up if you think
> it is necessary. 

That'll require "pre-sets" support in the generic Edit Area
code which I am going to add for 1.3.

Karsten
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