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A hospital medication monitoring system

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Hospitals need to process large quantities of scattered information to properly screen medication orders. The data includes complex relationships involving drugs, diseases, and other drugs that determine whether a particular drug is contraindicated for a patient. Hospitals would therefore benefit from a flexible system for storing complex medical data relationships. We have used GPLAN, a CODASYL-like data management system, to construct a functioning model of a hospital pharmacy medication monitoring system. The patients' histories, drug-drug contraindications, disease-drug contraindications, and recommended dosages are stored in the data base in a network structure defined by the Data Description Language. Each drug order is checked for dose, allergies, current diseases, and current medications.

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  1. Departments of Economics and Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

    Deborah J. Brown Ph.D., Richard Domine M.S., Edward Seward M.S. & Andrew B. Whinston Ph.D.

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  1. Deborah J. Brown Ph.D.
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  2. Richard Domine M.S.
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Supported in part by NSF grant MCS 76-24675.

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Brown, D.J., Domine, R., Seward, E. et al. A hospital medication monitoring system. J Med Syst 3, 143–151 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02225109

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