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Here is an example of a drug concept:

Drug Formularies

Drugs oftentimes have many different formulations. In OpenMRS, drugs and formulations have a 1:n relationship.  In other words, each drug concept may have an unlimited number of drug formulations.  Drug formulations may be created using the "Manage Concept Drug" page of the user-interface.  When creating a drug formulation, you specify the drug concept to which the formulation is linked.

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Each each drug formulation shares a concept_id with it's drug concept, but has a unique drug_id. The formulations are all stored in the drug table. 

Best practices

Concept names for drugs should represent generic drug names (ideally mapped to RXNORM and SNOMED).

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Naming of Combination drugs

Split combination drug components by slash '/' , and put them in alphabetical order which is standard methodology used by RxNORM. AMPATH uses the full name of the drug since there are multiple shortname (ie. AZT and ZDV).

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