OpenVPMS single tablet dispensing pop up warning
Is it possible to add a "pop up" for when 1 tablet is (usually mistakenly) dispensed? I have found over the years that vets, myself included, sometimes make up an invoice with 1 antibiotic tablet, not say 30.
This is because the drug label comes up, often we vets focus on writing the label, press print, then OK, and forget to put the correct quantity of tablets in.
A pop up when 1 tablet is dispensed saying "Do you really want to dispense 1 tablet only?" would save us thousands of $ over the years, can it be done?
NB: We would not want this when the medication is dispensed by the bottle (x 1) as it would get annoying.
Re: OpenVPMS single tablet dispensing pop up warning
What I have done to avoid this Jim is use the dosage feature...
So for commonly dispensed drugs we would set the concentration of the tablet
Then enter a dosage: For example for
Cephalexin 300mg tablets I set the concentration as 300
I then set a dosage for 5-20kg weight range of 15mg
and I set that I want 14 doses(ie 1bid for 7days)
I usually also set I want 0 decimal places. (I dont dispense 1/2 tablets)
So now when I sell it ...the system will take the animals weight x dose rate / concentration x doses and enter that in the qty.
Now it may not be exactly what you want to sell but its better than 1!
Ben
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It would be nice if we could assign minimal sale qty to some products in the same way we do with templates and have an alert if we sell less than minimum (like templates currently do)
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Can I also add that under most jurisdictions you want to make sure that if you are selling by the bottle the product clear states how many tablets in the bottle..
In our practice I have a blanket rule all products are priced individually and sold individually. People need to learn the bottles we don't break apart and sell as a bottle price and enter the number in the bottle.
ie the label should show 1 x Clomicalm 80mg - 30 tablets
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On a related note, if you use estimates and templates, you can also enable Minimum Quantities to ensure that quantities don't fall below an accepted minimum.
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Yep thats a great feature...but I dont think its practical to template every dispensed medication
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I actually think this could be a valuable feature...a min sale number per item on many it can just be left at 0 ...but for some setting a value at 2 would save a lot of money for some practices.
Thoughts
Ben
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When using Doses, the Quantity is displayed in blue to indicate that it is calculated rather than manually input.
This could be improved so that it is integrated with Minimum Quantities. If a quantity is determined by a dose, and Minimum Quantities are enabled, validation would fail. E.g.:
At the moment, the dose is ignored if the patient doesn't have a weight recorded (unless it is generated from a template), so this would need to change so that a patient weight is mandatory.
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I reckon that would work - honestly the cost saving on this could be dramatic for some practices.