Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed substance schema was Re: GNUmed and FreeDiams

[Karsten Hilbert]

> >> Is the purpose of is_fake to allow pseudo-brands
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> I could understand pseudo-brands as a means to achieve coupling of
> substances, for example patients with substance abuse / dependence
> 
>       Speedball
> 
>       ~ heroin 3mg + cocaine 30mg (surely variable but gives some idea)
> 
> But what other purpose serves to make "Brands" of fake drugs? I suppose
> maybe
> 
>       Brands of alcohol of varying strengths?
>       As a not-really-a-brand grouping term for a subset among among a wider
> range of substances?

One example are generic, fake, invented vaccines serving to document
that the patient did in fact receive vaccination against TdaP but who
knows what.

Karsten
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