Current Rx
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Glossary Item Box
The current Rx node of the clinical profile allows a doctor to create prescriptions for the patient. Only doctors are authorized to prescribe medications. The doctor must have a prescriber number saved in the staff details before the system will allow prescriptions.
Context Menu Options for Current Rx (R click on any drug in the list)
Add Item
Prescribe a drug to the patient. For details see Adding Current Rx
Delete
Delete a drug from patient’s current Rx.
Alternative
Show alternative for the selected drug.
Select/deselect
Mark the selected drug for prescribing in the current visit.
Change Dose
Change the dosage information of the drug.
Change PBS Category
Change the PBS category for the prescription.
Change Qty
Change the quantity prescribed.
Reg 24
Mark the drug for regulation 24.
Detail
This will show the details about the drug, like PBS info, price info, indications, contra-indications, authority indication etc.
CMI
CMI is the consumer medicine information. This might not be available for some of the drugs
PI
PI is the product information about the drug. This might not be available for some of the drugs.
Adding Current Rx
To prescribe a new medicine to the patient right click on current Rx screen and select add item from the context menu. This will open a drug search window. Type the first few letters of the drug you want to prescribe and hit search. This will give you a list of drugs and their details. For more details about drug search click here.
Double-click the drug you want to prescribe from the list. This will open another window where you can specify the dosage etc. for the drug.
Here you need to specify dosage, frequency and instruction. None of this is mandatory. This window also has a check box "Save as default dose". If this is checked it will save the dosage, frequency and instruction for that drug so that if the same medicine is prescribed again by the same user these will be pre-filled with the values.
The “Other” button lets you specify custom instruction for the drug. Clicking the other button will open another form. For more detail about custom instructions click here.
At the bottom there are three buttons “Regular” “Once Only” and “Cancel”. If "Regular" is selected then the drug will be added to the list of regular medications and will stay in the current Rx screen.
"Once only" will prescribe the drug for the patient only for this visit and therefore the drug will not stay in the Current Rx list of regular medications. Selecting cancel will cancel prescribing this medicine.
While prescribing the medicine the software may give warnings for allergy, interactions with other drugs, pregnancy, sports. The doctor can decide not to prescribe the drug when any such warnings might occur.
Drug Search
To search a drug, enter the first few letters of the drug and hit enter. Alternatively you can search a drug by class. When you click search by class it will open a box on the left side with a list of classes of drugs. Besides the name of the class there are + signs which when clicked will open the sub classes within that class. If you click on a subclass you will see the list of drugs in that subclass on the right side.
The drugs list come in different colors depending upon the PBS type of the drug. The legend of colors is shown at the bottom of the drug search screen.
Drug search context menu
In this example, the search for Elocon reveals, blue =PBS, green =DVA
Prescribe
Prescribe is same as double clicking an item. For details go to Adding Current Rx.
Add to fav
This will add a drug to your favorites list. You can retrieve your favorites list by using the “Favorites” button in the drug search.
Details
This will show the details about the drug, like PBS info, price info, indications, contra-indications, authority indication etc.
CMI
CMI is the consumer medicine information. This might not be available for some of the drugs
PI
PI is the product information about the drug. This might not be available for some of the drugs.
Customized Instructions
Clicking the "other" button on the dosage screen will open the custom instruction screen.
Here you can type a custom instruction. Optionally you can also check the “Save New”. If you check “Save New” you must give a name to the instruction in the box below.
Once you save it with save new checked, the next time you open the custom instruction again it will have the previous saved items on the left side. You can click on them and it will fill the instructions associated with the selection. You can then change the instructions if you wish and if you want to see the changed instructions next time for the selected item then check “Update”.
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