Prescription frequency abbreviations

Look-up table providing the number of times a drug should be administered per day based on the prescription frequency abbreviation (including latin abbreviations).

Example: BD stands for bis die, meaning twice a day. The corresponding daily_frequency value is 2.

reference_drug_frequency

Format

A data frame with 64 abbreviations and their corresponding daily frequency value.

See also

Latin medical abbreviations

Examples

data("reference_drug_frequency")
head(reference_drug_frequency)
#>   frequency daily_frequency
#> 1       12H               2
#> 2       6DR               4
#> 3        6H               4
#> 4       8HS               3
#> 5     BDEOD               1
#> 6       BDR               2