GNU Health/Prescriptions

About Prescriptions
Prescriptons can be found in the Health → Prescriptions section of GNU Health. However, since in most cases you only need to see the prescriptions of a specific patient, the recommended way is to open a Patient record and to switch to Prescriptions using the Relate button.

Information Stored in Prescriptions
Each Prescriptions record stores some general information:


 * Patient: Link to a patient (mandatory)
 * Prescription ID
 * Prescription Date
 * Prescribed by: Link to a health professional
 * Pharmacy: Link to a pharmacy (i.e. a Party record with the Pharmacy flag set)
 * Pregnancy Warning
 * Prescription Verified

The information about the medicaments can be found in the Presciption Lines section. Each Prescription Line consists of the following fields:
 * Medicament: Link to a medicament
 * Indication: Link to a Pathology Info record
 * Allow Substitution
 * Print
 * Form: Link to a Drug Form record
 * Administration Route: Link to another Drug Form record
 * Start: Date and time
 * End: Date and time
 * Dose
 * Dose Unit: Select an existing dose unit or create a new one
 * Times
 * Frequency
 * Admin Hours
 * Frequency
 * Unit: Choose from "Seconds", "Minutes", "Hours", "Days", "Weeks", or "When required"
 * PRN: Short for pro re nata (= use it as needed)
 * Treatment Duration
 * Treatment Period: Choose from "Minutes", "Hours", "Days", "Weeks", "Months", "Years", or "Indefinite"
 * Review: Date and time
 * Units
 * Refills #
 * Comment

Note: Only a fraction of these fields are visible in the list view, so make sure to open a Prescription Line in the form you to have access to all fields.

Prescription stock
Prescriptions can be tracked and inventoried by means of stock management.

To quickly create a new stock move, right-click the prescription > Actions > Create Prescription Stock Move. To view previous stock moves, right click the prescription > Relate > Stock Moves [readonly].

Note: Do not create new Stock Moves from the Relate view.

GNU Health/Prescrições