Dose Calculation
Posted September 5th, 2009 by vetmpcosta
Development Project Status: Stalled
This project has stalled due to lack of interest or user traffic.
This project is a spin-off from discussion about including the dispensing units in the label dialogue.
Forum: www.openvpms.org/forum/seeing-dispensing-units-during-invoicing
The idea would be to include dose calculations which would automatically complete the quantity box based on the patient weight, concentration of the drug and species.
it means a few details will need to be added to the product description and some changes to the look and feel of the label dialogue.
Some points to be discussed are;
- Dose range or single dose?
Do we include a low and high dose and show a range or do we just choose one dose and use that to populate the quantity field? If we have a dose range, how do we still get the benefit of automatically completing the quantity field?
- Injectable drugs with labels
If the calculations happen during the label dialogue, then all our injectable drugs will need labels associated with them. This will add a step whilst billing if you currently do not have labels associated with your injectable drugs.
- Configurable
Make it so that if you don't want to have dose ranges for a particular product, the look and feel of the label dialogue is not confusing.
Dose Calculation
Could it be set up so that when you set up the drug dialogue you choose:
On choosing your drug, the label screen appears and if you have pre configured
- Single dose - on use it automatically calculates/populates the quantity/dose field
- Dose range- on use it gives you the range and when you enter your choice it calculates and populates the quantity/dose field
- No Dose - Automatically defaults the cursor to a blank invoicing/label quantity field
For the first 2 there would also need to be a field to enter the number of days the course would be prescibed for so that the dose and quantity could be calculated
Also, as yet there is no quantity break calculation set up - this would be a good time to add it ( ie different mark ups and dispensing fees for complete bottles or packets versus split bottles/packets)
Cheers,
Nick