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Drug Regime
The Drug Regime for a guideline is an ordered collection of drug defaults that can be prescribed from a guideline, providing a prescribing protocol. See New Drug Regime lines and Prescribing from a Local Guideline
The Drug Regime often consists of the same drug repeated for different dosages, from weakest to strongest, and may also include variations for infants, children or other age ranges.
Rather than listing a whole series of drugs from one or more drug classes, the drug regime will show specially selected individual drugs with age filters which are relevant to a particular condition or for a particular purpose.
There are two main areas to use drug regimes:
- As a prescribing protocol for particular conditions, eg Otitis media requiring antibiotics
- As a quick means of adding common prescriptions, eg a list of the top ten drugs prescribed within the practice.
For example, in the Guideline for Acute Myocardial Infarction, the Drug regime sub-headings lines might be:
Analgesia
Diamorphine
Cyclimorph
Antiemetics
Metoclopramide
Prochlorperazine
Antiplatelet therapy / nitrates
Aspirin
Glyceryl Trinitrate
You can change the properties of a Drug Regime line, but the way a drug line displays cannot be amended. A list can be displayed of the guidelines in which this Drug Regime is used.
If you want to display a drug regime by drug class group, rather than by the drug dictionary, Drug Drug class List.
See also Drug Information for Patient (drug specific information that can be printed and handed to the patient); and Prescribing Message (Text of clinical information supporting the drug regime or advising use).
Continue to New Drug Regime lines
