Dear Rong, As a clinician, generic name is the manner we educate doctors and nurses in order to avoid the diversity of labelling of drugs producers and vendors.
The national approach is to use generic in the first isntance. That is the way we are using in our project http://www.health.vic.gov.au/healthsmart/ Cheers Carol Dr. Carola Hullin Lucay Cossio Co Founder of eHealth Systems Latinoamerica +61 3 9434 6729 +61 425 858 105 Melbourne- Australia From: [email protected] Subject: Re: Generic name of medication Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:57:22 +0200 To: openehr-clinical at openehr.org Hi Rong, Good question. Here in the Netherlands I would argue that one chooses the generic name first since (at least GP's) doctors have to prescribe drugs by their generic name. The idea behind this is that if drugs are 'off patent', the often more expensive 'brand' drugs aren't prescribed automatically. It might also be easier from a practical perspective that the generic name is prevailing: There is only one generic drug name per drug but their can be many brand/commercial names for the same drug, especially if it's off patent. Especially with 'older' drug most doctors know the generic name, but don't know all the brand/commercial names. See for instances how many brand drugs contain acetylsalicylic acid. Cheers, Stef Op 21 okt 2009, om 15:43 heeft Rong Chen het volgende geschreven: Dear all, In the Swedish archetype project, we need to record medication information with the medication archetype from the openEHR knowledge repository. We have difficulties to decide on which archetype node to use in the medication archetype ("openEHR-EHR-ITEM_TREE.medication.v1") for the name of the medication and the ATC code. There are at least two possibilities here, both "Name of the medication" and "Generic name of the medication" seems to be possible. Should we use the "Name of medication" to keep the medication name and use "Generic name" for ATC code or the other way around? Cheers, Rong _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical _________________________________________________________________ Take a peek at other people's pay and perks Check out The Great Australian Pay Check http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20091022/511dcaa5/attachment.html>
