Re: [Gnumed-devel] and current medication display, again

[Rogerio Luz]

As with the hole deal of this new implementation, what Karsten sugests is enough AS LONG AS an individual edit form the doctor may be possible to save ... say as the way "encounter typer" functions, there are the "shipped" types, but I can make my own and make THOSE the default 

this list down here could be added to Karsten´s: 

6:00 10:00 14:00 18:00 22:00 02:00 (every 4h - RARE but nice to have if hospital setting)
6:00 12:00 18:00 24:00 (every 6h)
8:00 16:00 24:00 (every 8h)
8:00 20:00 / 9:00 21:00 / 10:00 22:00 (every 12h) 

in fast, fasting, before eating anything (in Brasil we use the term "jejum", for Levotiroxine for example)

before meals, after meals (Metformine and Sulfonilureias)

on even days, on odd days, take one day and skip the next  (some people use Digoxin that way ... not the way I use it).

repeat after x amount of time ( ??? worth the trouble ??? - ASMA meds, Albendazol, some peds vaccines, etc ) 

Well I guess I have oficially ended all my sugestions on this at the moment ;-) 

Of course I would not think this list is fit to everybody, and I could of course do without any of these, as long as I could edit the client to insert them on the "pull down menu" if I wished :-)

Rogerio

2009/4/3 Jim Busser <address@hidden>

On 3-Apr-09, at 6:27 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

What is wanted by doctors for scheduling same-amount-daily
drugs ?

 morning   noon   evening   night

 rise   breakfast   lunch    (tea ?)   supper   bedtime

 7:00    9:00   12:00   18:00   22:00

 7:00    9:00   12:00   15:00   19:00   23:00

Is it really patient specific ?

If so, is one of the above approximations (or another one)
"good enough" ?

Except in the case of insulins (and maybe oral biphosphonates) maybe 4 times a day would be enough?
Do we agree that precision in the timing (e.g. noon "exactly") is rarely if ever required?
Would it be helpful to alter noon to mid-day?
I think that times after 1200 will confuse some patients accustomed only to "PM" and might suggest a toggle in the GUI so that th epatient can be asked what they prefer and the printout would then suit accordingly.

Maybe if extra precision is needed it can be factored out of the "column headings" and be placed with the medication information e.g. if the times mattered they could be free-text included with the

       ac / pc / with meals

information.

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