Drug lists
Getting hold of drug lists should not pose much of a problem. It all
depends on your requirements. You can go to the industry associations
like IFPMA, you could go to the World Health Organisation - which office
again depends on your requirements. You could go to a drug wholesaler,
or you could go to a local pharmacy.
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. A survey in the UK some years ago (general
practitioners) concluded that 150 or so might suffice for most needs.
So I would rather make a module that was able to import a tabular
compilation, whatever source, so that each user - whether a GP or a
pharmacy - had full freedom to modicy and choose.
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