Drugs list - most frequently prescribed drugs

Drugs most frequently prescribed

The "Drugs" functionality in the "Surgery" menu is used to create handy list of favorite drugs (most frequently prescribed) by the logged doctor. After selecting this functionality, there is displayed a view with two columns. The left column is a list of all drugs on the basis of which the doctor can create his handy list of favorite drugs. The right column is a list of favorite drugs of logged doctor.

In the left column by default are displayed all available drugs. At each drug are presented the following information:

  • name
  • form
  • dose
  • package
  • producer
  • repayment
  • is this drug authorized for marketing
  • is this contraceptive drug
  • drug
  • group of precursors
  • category of availability
  • international name
  • characteristic - if the drug has a characteristic then in the field of characteristic is displayed a button with the down arrow „↓” to download the PDF file with the characteristic of the drug
  • replacements - at every drug there is the "Display" button, which allows to display replacements for a particular drug

Pressing the button of displaying replacements at any drug switches the view from the list of drugs to the list of replacements for this drug. In the upper part of the window there is displayed additional information about which drug’s replacements are currently displayed ant at this information is „×” sign. Clicking on the „×” ends displaying of replacements and restores the previous view of drugs.

The list of drugs displayed in the left column can be narrowed by entering a part of the name, form, package, producer, international name in the fields visible at the bottom of the column and / or selecting the appropriate values from the drop-down lists also visible at the bottom of the column. When entering a part of the name, form, package, producer, international name and / or selecting values from drop-down lists, the system automatically displays only these medicines that meet the search criteria. To add a drug to the list of favorite drugs, place the mouse pointer on the drug (in the left column), press the left mouse button and holding down the left mouse button to drag the cursor to the right column and then release the mouse button. In this way the drug is moved from the left to the right column, so it is moved to list of favorites drugs. At the drugs in the left column there are visible fields that allow to select drugs. They are used to possible to add many drugs at once to the list of favorites drugs. To add several medications at once to the list of favorites drugs, simply select it in the left column, hover the mouse over any of these medicines, press the left mouse button and holding down the left mouse button to drag the cursor to the right column and then release the mouse button. In this way drugs are moved from the left to the right column, so are moved to the list of favorites drugs. Above the list of drugs in the left column there is also visible checkbox for selecting / deselecting quickly all visible medicines. By clicking in turn on the headers of columns under the list of drugs it is possible to sort them alphabetically by the column (subsequent clicks are changing the sort order from ascending to descending and vice versa). At the top of the left column there is also displayed a navigation pane uses to change the amount of drug visible on one screen as well as switching between successive screens if the drugs do not fit on one.

In the right column is displayed the list of favorite drugs of doctor. At every drug there is a button with the sign "-" enabling the removal of the drug from the list of favorite drugs. At all the medicines there are also visible fields that allow selection of drugs. They are used to possible to delete multiple medicines at once from the list of favorite drugs. After selecting at least one drug, at the bottom of the right column there is the "Delete selected" button allows the removal of all of the selected drugs from the list of favorite drugs. Above the list of drugs in the right column there is also a checkbox for selecting / deselecting quickly all visible medicines. The order of medicines in the right column can be changed on the basis of drag and drop. To move the drug in the right column to another location you should move the mouse cursor to a drug, press the left mouse button and holding down the left mouse button to drag the cursor to another location of right column and then release the mouse button and the drug will be moved to the indicated place. For each drug there is also a button with a pencil symbol that opens a new window with a dosage definition form. Defined dosing speeds up the subsequent prescribing  of drugs via e-prescription. Dosage may be specified in one of two ways: descriptively or in the form of a chart. There are dedicated tabs in the dosage definition window for both methods. In the definition of the dosage chart, you must provide the number of days of taking the drug and define at least one row specifying the dosage method (one such row is displayed by default). Dosage can be specified in one of three methods: taking a specific dose of the medicine at specific times, taking a specific dose of the medicine a specific number of times a day, and taking a specific dose of the medicine at specific seasons of the day. The dosage chart row shows fields for all three dosage methods listed, but only one of them must be completed. If the dosage chart changes during the treatment (e.g. the patient is to take 2 tablets once a day for 5 days and then 1 tablet once a day for the next 3 days), then more rows should be entered specifying the dosage methods, maintaining their correct order. To do this, use the blue "More" button - each click on it displays another row to define the dosage method to be used next. Empty rows will be ignored when saving data. If more than one dosage row is completed, one has to indicate how many times the patient should repeat taking the medicine according to the given method (e.g. "take 2 tablets once a day for 5 days" means that the number of times the patient should repeat taking 2 tablets once a day is 5). In the case of completing the dosage with taking the drug at specific seasons of the day, even if only one row of the dosage chart is defined, it is also necessary to indicate how many times the patient is to repeat taking the drug according to the given method (if only one row of the dosage chart is defined, the number of repetitions should be the same with the number of days of treatment). If one needs to redefine the entire dosage chart, one has to click the red "Clear" button to clear all contents of the dosage chart definition form. Once one finished defining the dosage chart, one has to save the entered definition by clicking the green "Save" button.