Drugs

PTS has access to several optional utilities that require a drug lookup facility, and that is provided by the data on the drugs setup page.

It's important to note that populating the drugs table is not required for PTS's core functionality. In addition it's recommended that the drug data be imported using an automated tool of some sort such as our own free DM+D importer software, or via a data dump from your dispensing software. While you can add drugs to this page manually it's plainly not appropriate for the many thousands of different drugs you'll be handling.

Examples of optional uses for the drugs lookup include:

• Specifying actual drugs and their doses and quantities during booking in, as opposed to just number of items.
• Making the same available to the automatic booking in procedure of e-prescribing.
• Specify which drugs were dispensed and which were supposed to be dispensed when recording a drug mismatch error.
• Enabling use of the Controlled Drugs Register.