Guidelines - Adding a Drug Regime

A Drug Regime on a Guideline is an ordered collection of drug defaults providing a prescribing protocol. A 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. These can be issued directly from the Guideline.

There are two main areas to use drug regimens:

• As a prescribing protocol for particular conditions, for example, Otitis media requiring antibiotics
• As a quick means of adding common prescriptions, for example, a list of the top ten drugs prescribed within the practice.

To add a Drug Regime:

1. From Consultation Manager, select Guidelines - Select Guide and either:
   • Using the Mnemonic, locate the Guideline required, see Selecting Guidelines for details if required, and select Maintenance Mode , or
   • Select New and create a new Guideline, see Guidelines - Creating a Patient Reportfor details if required.
2. From the floating toolbar, select Drug Regime .
3. The Select Drug Regime screen displays, select New.
4. The Drug Regime screen displays, complete as follows:

   

   • Mnemonic (up to 30 characters) - Enter a short name for the drug regime, for example, GTN.
   • Name - Enter the name of the Drug Regime to display on the Guideline, for example, Glyceryl Trinitrate.
5. Select OK to save.

6. The Select Drug Regime screen is updated with the name entered. Select Add Drug to Regime.

7. The Select Drug screen displays, either:

   • Enter the first three or four letters of the drug name required, optionally followed by the form and then the strength, for example 'amox cap 250' and press Enter on your keyboard,

   • Press F3 on your keyboard to display the Select Drug screen, or

   • Double click just under Select Drug to display the Select Drug screen.

     See Using the Select Drug Screen for further details.
8. With your item of choice displaying in the initial Select Drug screen, select New.
9. The Add Drug Default screen displays, add the quantity, dosage and age range defaults and where appropriate the age range for this default:

   

10. Select OK to save.
11. Repeat steps 8 and 9 until all the items you require in this Drug Regime are added.
12. Select OK to save.
13. The Select Drug Regime screen displays with the selected drugs and defaults in the bottom half. If you have listed more than one drug:
    • Each drug is separated by a thick line, double click the line to combine the drugs above and below line so they are prescribed together. Double click to replace the separator line.
    • Highlight an item and select either Move up or Move down to place the items in the order you wish them to display.
14. Select OK.