Dose based prescribing dose form reference set

This reference set provides terminology to support the recording of dose form for dose-based prescribing. It was developed collaboratively as part of the Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT) Dose Based Prescribing project and is designed for use by developers whose vendor systems create medication orders.

The reference set should be used in association with the Dose based prescribing route of administration reference set and the Dose based prescribing dose frequency and interval reference set, both of which provide values describing routes of administration, frequencies and intervals for dose-based prescribing.

This reference set can be used:

· alongside medication terminologies, such as the AMT, to create dose based orders for patient medications

· within implementations where use-case specific reference sets for dose based prescribing are yet to be developed

· as the basis for developing further use-case specific reference sets for dose based prescribing through a process of constraint, or expanding upon to create more expansive reference sets.

While this reference set was developed with a focus on dose-based prescribing, it may be used for any type of prescribing (including pack-based prescribing).