Re: [Gnumed-devel] re Medication List template

[Jim Busser]

On 2009-12-16, at 9:44 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> Patient will usually use that list to prepare a pill box. So he will search 
> the list for all drugs that he needs to put in the morning compartment.
> If you provide the overview:
> 
> morning: 1tbl Rampiril 5, 1/2 tbl metoprolo etc. they will likely have a lot 
> less trouble then searching the traditional list.
> 
> metoprolol 1-0-0
> ramipril 5 1-0-0
> 
> Hospital doctors however prefer the second view since they have to transfer 
> this into hospital charts.

If we think patients would load their pillbox on a per-medication basis, then 
both of the above can be achieved within a single form because in both cases 
they will want

... <brand > <drug> <strength> <form> <regimen> <notes> ...

and the only difference is that in the case of the hospital-oriented form there 
is insertion at left of

<health issue / encounter> 

which the patient may be able to ignore, or might in fact appreciate to know.

PS I am suspecting that it may be desirable to soft-return onto a new line the 
<notes> both for reasons of avoiding to split the notes text onto a new line 
(better to have it on a single line) and if it would be on a new line, then to 
indent it by  a suitable amount (10mm?) as:
          Notes: <notes>
and I would wonder whether the text formatting should be any different... 
italicized?