Naming Conventions

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Sarah Gallup
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Naming Conventions

We are setting up naming conventions for Epic, Pyxis, etc... One point of discussion that has come up is putting the dosage form in the name. An example would be metoprolol (LOPRESSOR) 25 mg tablet. It was brought up that we shouldn't include tablet and that it would be assumed it's a tablet otherwise we list capsule, solution, etc... The thought was that, when searching, it would keep medications in a list looking different from each other.

Also do you always include vial or syringe at the end of the medication? We're debating this as well.

I wanted to see others thoughts / opinions on this as we had quite a bit of disagreement on our team regarding this.

Thank you!

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