Re: [Gnumed-devel] gmdrugs changes

[Hilmar Berger]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Horst Herb wrote:

> Ian Haywood wrote:
> > I would like to propose some small changes to gmdrugs:
> > 
> > - link_drug_indication links to drug_dosage. This is so different 
> > indications can be ascribed to different dosages and
> >  routes of a drug. I do not agree that other attributes (side-effects, 
> > interactions, etc.) should be dose-route
> >  specific.
> 
> Actually I don't think this is such a good idea, since the vast majority 
> of indications will not be dosage specific. It is the rare exception 
> that a drug dosage is indication specific.
My point is that drug characteristics do not only depend on the active
substance, and therefore should it should be possible to store different
values for drugs containing the same active substance.

Hilmar