[Revised Mar 03]
For calculation of repeats due, days supply, and compliance the software needs to understand the dose and frequency to calculate days-of-supply. For some scripts this is not available, E.g.; "Apply tds" has no dose and "Take TWO prn" has no frequency.
To switch on/off 'Days supply' calculation
Set the switch; Options, RxOne DISPENSE Options, tick 'Show Dose and Freq'
'RxOne' 'learns' to extract dose/frequency
If 'RxOne' is not sure what the dose/frequency is it will pop up a box and ask ONCE only for a particular 'sig'. It will remember the response and will automatically put in the dose/frequency next time is sees that instruction so this is a short term process as you teach it. It will continue to ask on repeats until they work through the system.
It knows that 'prn' and similar instructions, or drugs like eye drops, do not need the dose/frequency question asked, so the option is grayed out in those cases.
Dose & Freq
'RxOne' automatically takes the numbers off the raw 'sig' before translation. Misinterpretation can arise if the unit of dose for the patient is different from the unit for the pricing office, E.g. "1 teaspoonful mane" has a dose of '1' but the pricing office requires '7g'. Enter this as "7g (one teaspoonful) mane" so that it will advise a dose of '7g' to the pricing office, and the patient has both the technically correct, and common language, doses. If this happens often, define a new sig "tsp" = "Take 7g (one teaspoonful" and use that to save time.
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