A General Model of Drug Prescription

B. Séné; A. Venot; I. de Zegher; C. Milstein; S. Errore; F de Rosis; G. Strauch

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634606

Methods of Information in Medicine, Table of Contents

Methods Inf Med 1995; 34(04): 310-317
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634606

Original Article

A General Model of Drug Prescription

Authors

B. Séné

¹Département de Biostatistiques et Infonnatique Médicale et IRT-ECLIMED, Hôpital Cochin (Université René Descartes – Paris V), Paris Cedex 14, France
A. Venot

¹Département de Biostatistiques et Infonnatique Médicale et IRT-ECLIMED, Hôpital Cochin (Université René Descartes – Paris V), Paris Cedex 14, France
I. de Zegher

²BIM, Everberg, Belgium, Italy
C. Milstein

¹Département de Biostatistiques et Infonnatique Médicale et IRT-ECLIMED, Hôpital Cochin (Université René Descartes – Paris V), Paris Cedex 14, France
S. Errore

³Dipartimento di Informatico-University of Bari, Italy
F de Rosis

³Dipartimento di Informatico-University of Bari, Italy
G. Strauch

¹Département de Biostatistiques et Infonnatique Médicale et IRT-ECLIMED, Hôpital Cochin (Université René Descartes – Paris V), Paris Cedex 14, France

Abstract

Abstract:

Currently, there is no widely accepted structured representation of drug prescription. Nevertheless, a structured representation is required for entering and storing drug prescriptions avoiding free text in computerized systems, and for drug prescription reviews. Derived from part of the work of the European OPADE project, we describe an object-oriented model of drug prescription which incorporates important concepts such as the phase and triggering event concepts. This model can be used to record all drug prescriptions, including infusions, in a structured way avoiding free text. The phase concept allows the storage of sequentially ordered dosage regimens for a drug within the same prescription. The prescription triggering event concept allows recording of the administration of a drug conditional to dates, symptoms and clinical signs, medical procedures, and everyday life events. This model has been implemented within the OPADE project; the corresponding aspects of the user interface are presented to show how this model can be used in practice. Even if other new attributes may be added to the described objects, the structure of this model is suitable for general use in software which requires the entry, storage and processing of drug prescriptions.

Keywords:

Drug Prescription - Computerized Drug Prescription System - Object-Oriented Model

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