Re: Drug lists
Gaut,
which perspective are you looking at this from ?
I wonder so I can put your statements in context.
> Getting hold of drug lists should not pose much of a problem. It all
> depends on your requirements.
It also depends on the amount of money you are willing to
spend. Try it if it's not such a big problem. I'd be delighted
if you come up with something useful for reasonably little
money.
> You can go to ...
> ... a drug wholesaler, or you could go to a local pharmacy.
Except that I'd probably get into legal trouble for this.
> But the needs: For a prescriber it is necessary with tablet strengths,
> package sizes, and maybe prices. If there is generic prescribing,
> generic names might be sufficient. Anyway: the really important question
> is that no single prescriber ever needs the entire list of drugs
> available in a country.
While it may be correct that no single prescriber ever
utilizes the entire drug list it is an error to assume that
they don't _need_ it. After all I must choose my range from
somewhere. And I need drug information on any random drug
people walk in with.
> And besides, a complete list needs continuous updating.
An incomplete list also needs continuous updates albeit at a
lower level of frequency.
> and choose. If the prescriber prefers a selection of brand names, these
> should be identifyable by some sort of tagging, and this tagging should
> be preserved after an update of the entire list.
I am not sure I understand this suggestion. I would be very
indebted if you could enlighten me.
Thanks !
Karsten Hilbert, MD
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