Good work, Burke...glad you are listening since I am never on those calls! the strength should be the listed strength (in this case 200 mg)
Andy -------------------- Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH - Director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University - Asst. Prof. of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology Columbia University Email: [email protected] Mobile: +1 (646) 469-2421 Office: +1 (212) 305-4842 Skype: akanter-ippnw Yahoo: andy_kanter >________________________________ > From: "Yeung, Ada K." <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 7:16 PM >Subject: Re: [OPENMRS-DEV] Handling iron content of iron supplements > > > >It’s good to know someone is listening to the scrum intro! J > >With this example, what should we put for the dosage strength column (200mg or >60mg)? > >-ada > >From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Burke Mamlin >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:46 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [OPENMRS-DEV] Handling iron content of iron supplements > >Ada, > >I'm listening to the scrum intro, where you were asking if FERROUS SULFATE 200 >mg (with 60 mg ELEMENT IRON) TAB would use the drug ingredients table. > >In this example, there is only one active drug (iron), but the amount of >effective iron (iron that reaches the patient's blood) happens to be different >than the pill's dose. So, for example, giving a 200 mg supplement of iron >only delivers 60 mg of actual iron to the patient. The providers want to know >how much effective iron is being delivered with each dose. While the pill is >dosed at 200 mg, the actual iron delivered to the patient is 60 mg. > >So, in this example, I would not use the ingredient table; rather, I would use >a single drug entry – e.g., something like you have… FERROUS SULFATE 200 mg >(60 mg ELEMENTAL IRON) TAB. > >Cheers, > >-Burke > >________________________________ > >Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
