Re: [Gnumed-devel] further thinking on list of current medications

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

>>
>> Does this mean we *need* two modes of presentation ?
>>
>> - alphabetically w/o dupes for quick reference as to "what"
>> - grouped by issue with duplicates as needed - tells us "why"
>>
>> Note, all this is about the doctor's view.
>
> I agree that it looks ok (helpful, even) from the point of view of "with 
> *what* are these conditions being treated" and not "what is this patient 
> taking".

I realized as much which is why I decided we need the other
view, too.

> For patient use, it would be important for each drug to be listed only 
> once,
Well, that's going to be no different independently of the
above. There is, however, also a patient-usable view which
lists certain drugs more than once:

"drug-by-time-of-day"

morning
 Metoprolol
 ...

noon
 Omeprazol
 ...

evening
 Metoprolol
 ...

> however if the one-to-many link would allow mutiple indications to 
> be concatenated into a column "taken for"
It can, yes.

Karsten
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