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An allergy button needed ?

 

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That's side effects ...

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Graham Chiu
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Graham:

That's side effects ...

Allergy not= to Side Effects.

Much more important.

Giving someone a drug they've had side effects to is one thing.   Giving someone a drug that they've had an allergic reaction to is a major mistake.

 

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Allergy is more important than Fear, add it there.

If  a drug was stopped for Fear, "just type it in"   :)

 

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I get far more people declined to get their meds filled on account of fear of side effects that developing an allergy!

 

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Graham Chiu
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I'm not sure I know of an EMR that doesn't have a section dedicated to allergies.

Certainly doctors would be used to having an allergy section.

At least being able to easily add Allergy as the first word in the Reason column would be a good idea.

Another problem would be the co-mingling of allergies and discontinued drugs makes reporting allergies to other physicians difficult.  Does a doctor receiving my referral note really want to know the 4 NSAIDs, 5 SSRIs, 3 Sleeping pills and 2 statins the patient eventually stopped ?  

I think most doctor expect a section dedicated to allergies.  Drugs stopped b/c of intolerances and the million other reasons could go in another category.

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Graham:

I get far more people declined to get their meds filled on account of fear of side effects that developing an allergy!

Well you Rx crazy meds, no wonder.

OK keep fear, but just add Allergy.

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This should be addressed soon.

Allergies vs. Discontinued drugs for other reasons

Drug Allergies needs it's own tab.

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IDEA: add the word ALLERGY to the Instructions - and order the Old Meds with Allergies first.

 

 

 

 

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Another IDEA: each medication has a column (field?) in the database called Allergy - it is set to "N" for No.  But when either method of adding an allergy is used ... it is Updated to Y.  The Allergies and Old medications could be sorted on this (undisplayed) field ... with all the drug allergies listed first.

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Idea 3: Tabs

Idea 4: Top and Bottom (I dont think we can do this properly but ...)

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I'm thinking about this ...

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Graham Chiu
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bump.

In primary care we deal with alot of discontinued medications.

ALOT !

To comingle discontinued drugs with allergies is dangerous.

 

In reality, there are 3 sections needed.

(1) Allergies

(2) Drugs the patient doesn't want again.

(3) Discontinued drugs

If there were two sections I would merge (1) and (2) but make note in a notes section if it is an allergy or not.

 

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