Re: [Health-dev] Prescribing liquid medicines and describing medicine strength

2016-12-28 Thread andrewpgledh...@tiscali.co.uk
Yes Luis. The medicine database needs to be able to record the medicine strength per unit of administration dose. g/mg/microgram per mL/capsule/tablet/dose As you rightly suggested this will enable the link between what a doctor might precribe - mg - and what the patient/nurse needs to unders

Re: [Health-dev] Prescribing liquid medicines

2016-12-27 Thread Luis Falcon
Hi Andrew ! On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 19:26:16 + (GMT) "andrewpgledh...@tiscali.co.uk" wrote: > Hello Luis and dev team > > When prescribing oral liquid medicines it might be safer to include > the strength of the medicine in the 'medicine' description. > > Amoxicillin 125mg/5ml oral suspension