Computer controlled repeat prescribing used to analyse drug management.

In a practice that has been using a computer routinely for more than two years to print, monitor, and audit repeat prescriptions a program was written to analyse combinations of drug treatments. A method is described in which for given diagnoses the computer can identify the appropriate drugs and add them together in a systematic way to produce detailed printouts of the drug management in the practice. A technique by which the computer user can analyse them further on a pharmacological basis is shown.