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.