> Hi, > > I've been toying with the idea of writing a medication rating system > that is an online web application in which users are able to give > comments about medications that they have used. One of it's features > is to allow people to enter in new medications if it is not currently > available. For this, though, they must enter in certain requirements, > such as the name of the drug and it's manufacturer. That would make for an easy way to retrieve basic drug information. Albeit, I suspect, it would be of low quality and would have to be double-checked to be of use.
> The goal was to make it useful in that if a person were considering > taking a medication they could easily check the comments of other > people and it see it's "satisfaction rating" from -10 - 10 (negatives > being "this is a bad drug!"). I wonder what implications on (real, scientific !) quality of care this would have !?! Would it increase of decrease compliance ?? Very interesting indeed. > If it gained any popularity, the drug > information itself would naturally grow as more and more users enter > in new medications to rate. A mere listing of available drugs is most likely relatively easy to obtain. It'll more an order of magnitude more difficult to get interaction data, dosage, packaging info etc. Any thoughts ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
