On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:27, Milton Sales wrote: > Having seen a number of alternate software packages in my travels, none > other than MD and BP have as thorough or safe prescribing components. Some > can make men pregnant, prescribe methotrexate or warfarin for pregnant > patients without warning, or with a warning buried in another window, few > check for disease-drug interaction, Coeliac disease checking is absent in > most other programs. The fact that the patient is a smoker or pregnant or > breast feeding is hard to find in other packages. All these safety issues > are in my mind the most important aspect of any package. If I can > accidently prescribe a teratogen to a pregnant woman, then the software is > not worth owning in my book. Safer prescribing outways many of the other > bells and whistles. Upload Download to laptop is a boon and works better > with MD3
these are good points, but are available in other packages. the package i am currently using allows you to set the depth of the warning - do you want to see just severe interaction warnings or mild and moderate as well? liz -- A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
