If you're writing a prescription to taper down from 10mg, 1 per week, should you just prescribe a bunch of 1mg pills? 10 pills every day of the first week, 9 pills every day of the second week, etc? Or should you prescribe 2 5mg every day of the first week, then 1 5 and 4 1s?
- Do the unit sizes afford cutting the pill into ½ or ¼?
- Should you just prescribe a bunch of 1mg pills?
- Or send some 5s and then some 1s? How many?
Proposed solution:
- Make a list of common meds and available sizes
- Allow choosing from common medications
- Allow adding or toggling specific unit sizes
- Some patients prefer pills of the same size
- Factor in cutting ½ or ¼
- Toggle allowing cutting
- Some patients prefer not cutting pills
Common medications
- Prednisone
- Methylprednisolone
If you're writing a prescription to taper down from 10mg, 1 per week, should you just prescribe a bunch of 1mg pills? 10 pills every day of the first week, 9 pills every day of the second week, etc? Or should you prescribe 2 5mg every day of the first week, then 1 5 and 4 1s?
Proposed solution:
Common medications