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Re: [Gnumed-devel] improved medication list
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] improved medication list |
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Sun, 4 Jul 2010 21:39:41 +0200 |
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On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 08:28:42AM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > I have improved the current medication table in the LaTeX
> > format. This is now much more suitable for patients
> > wondering how they should take their medication.
>
> Conny is saying that there is too much information. While the information is
> technically correct it could lead to a patient taking sixty pills (pulse
> value)
Excellent point !
> She prefers to only have it say heart medication or blood pressure medication
> or pain medication.
While this is very patient-minding it isn't in our hands
because GNUmed doesn't know the purpose of the medication at
that level of granularity.
> Maybe we could have another simpler template. I understand
> that the information there is manual input anyway so she could write whatever
> is there.
Exactly, a mindful doctor will put such things in the proper
field such that they end up on the right spot on the
printout.
> The component information for combination drugs needs to go away for
> her preferred template as well.
Hm, hm, what happens when the pharmacy replaces the brand
the doctor had prescribed and perhaps discussed with the
patient ?
This happens every day. The patient must be able to identify
components in drugs (I know the patient never will but it
must be possible).
> A fairly young patient (50 or so) recently confronted her saying. Hey, a few
> weeks back my urologist noticed elevated PSA-levels. He screwed up because he
> failed to detect my (now diagnosed) lung cancer.
Uhm, like, what does this tell me ?
Karsten
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