Medication and Appliance Selection

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Searching for Repeat Medication (1.02)

There are a number of ways you can specify the criteria for medication and appliance searches, this includes Drug Name, Drug Class and Formulation. To specify medication and appliances:

  1. From the Vision 3 front screen, select Search and Reports.
  2. Select New Ad-hoc Search .
  3. Select Add Entity next to Search Details and the Select from Group screen displays.
  4. Double click Therapy and then double click either Acute and Repeat Issue Therapy or Repeat Masters:

  5. From Search Details, highlight Acute and Repeat Issue Therapy and select Selections .

  6. The Criteria Select screen displays, the search options include:
    • Drug - Specific drug and strength.
    • Drug Name - Can be used to search on all forms of a medication or appliance, for example, Ventolin.
    • Drug Read Code
    • Drug Class (Action Group) - For example, Penicillins. When selecting Drug Class you can enter a medication or appliance name in the dictionary, which takes you to the appropriate group in the hierarchy.
    • Formulation of Drug - For example, powder.
    Choose the appropriate option, for example, Drug Name.
  7. Select Add New .
  8. Enter the medication or appliance name, alternatively select from the drug dictionary:

    1. Select Select Drug and the Drug Dictionary displays.
    2. Enter all or part of the Drug name and select Find:

    3. Use the arrows to scroll and select the medication or appliance.
    4. Select OK and the Criteria Select screen updates.
  9. Update the contents of the medication or appliance name as required, for example, you can search for a specific strength / formulation, or find all drugs with a certain name, for example, 'Ventolin':

  10. The Search Criteria defaults to Contains, amend to Not Contains if required.
    Note - Contains is not case sensitive.
  11. To add additional medication or appliances select Add New.
  12. Select OK to proceed.
See Adding Entities for details.
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