Save Prescription Protocols Once, Apply With One Click

If you're a solo GP or family physician in India, your patient mix follows the 80/20 rule. Roughly 20 conditions account for 80% of your visits: viral fever, common cold, acidity/GERD, UTI, type-2 diabetes follow-up, hypertension follow-up, joint pain, skin allergy, constipation, headache, anxiety/sleep issues, and so on.

For each of these, you have a near-identical prescription pattern. Same 2-4 medicines, same dosing logic, same dietary advice, same lifestyle notes. You write it from scratch each time.

You shouldn't. Here's how protocol-based prescribing works.

What a "protocol" is in DRP-OS

A protocol is a saved prescription template containing:

• A name (e.g., "Acidity — 7 days," "Viral fever — adult," "BP follow-up — stable")
• Language (English / Hindi / Sanskrit)
• An internal description (when to use, caveats)
• One or more medicines, each with default dosing in 4 slots
• Optional diet guidelines
• Optional lifestyle changes
• Optional default duration

You build it once. From then on, applying it to a patient takes one click and 5-10 seconds for adjustments.

How the schema works

Inside DRP-OS:

• clinic_rx_templates — stores the template metadata (name, language, description)
• body_json — stores the actual medicine list, dosing, diet, and lifestyle as structured JSON

When you apply a template to a visit:

• Each medicine becomes a row in clinic_visit_items
• item_type is set to "group" — meaning these medicines belong to a protocol
• You can still add individual medicines or extras alongside the protocol

This means a single visit can mix one protocol + 1-2 patient-specific additions, without losing the protocol's structure.

Common Indian clinic protocols

Here are realistic protocols Indian doctors actually save. (These are illustrative — adjust for your specific practice.)

Acidity / GERD — 14 days

• Pantoprazole 40mg — 1-0-0-0 before breakfast, 14 days
• Domperidone 10mg — 1-0-1-0 before meals, 7 days
• Sucralfate suspension — 10ml, 1-0-1-1 after meals, 14 days
• Diet: avoid spicy/oily/citrus, smaller frequent meals, dinner before 8pm
• Lifestyle: elevate head of bed, no lying down for 2 hrs after eating

Viral fever — adult, 5 days

• Paracetamol 500mg — 1-1-1-1 every 6 hours, when temp >100°F, 3 days
• Cetirizine 10mg — 0-0-0-1 at bedtime, 5 days
• Multivitamin — 1-0-0-0 after breakfast, 5 days
• Diet: plenty of fluids, light food (khichdi, fruit, soup)
• Lifestyle: rest, no exertion for 5 days, follow up if fever persists past day 3

UTI — uncomplicated adult female

• Nitrofurantoin 100mg — 1-0-1-0 after food, 5 days
• Paracetamol 500mg — SOS for pain, max 4/day
• Lifestyle: 3-4 litres of water daily, urinate after intercourse, cotton underwear
• Follow up if symptoms persist past day 3 or fever develops

Type-2 diabetes follow-up — stable

• Metformin 500mg — 1-0-1-0 with meals, continue
• Glimepiride 1mg — 1-0-0-0 before breakfast, continue (if applicable)
• Atorvastatin 10mg — 0-0-0-1 at bedtime, continue
• Diet: low GI carbs, no sweets, controlled portions
• Lifestyle: 30 min walk daily, HbA1c test in 3 months

The hidden value: consistency

The obvious benefit of protocols is speed. The hidden benefit is consistency of care.

When you treat the same condition 50 different ways across 50 patients, you can't learn from your own data. Each prescription is custom, untraceable.

When you have a documented protocol for "uncomplicated UTI," and you apply it to 50 patients, you can now ask:

• What percentage of patients improved by day 3?
• What percentage needed a second-line antibiotic?
• Are there patient subgroups where the protocol fails?

This is how Indian solo practices slowly evolve toward evidence-based protocols. Every revised protocol becomes institutional memory you can teach a junior associate later.

Multi-language protocols

You can store the same protocol in three languages:

• "Acidity — 14 days" in English (urban patient)
• "पेट में जलन — 14 दिन" in Hindi (rural/Hindi-speaking patient)
• "अम्लपित्त — 14 दिन" in Sanskrit (Ayurvedic patient with Sanskrit-trained vaidya)

The medicines stay the same. The dosage instructions print in the chosen language so the patient understands.

How to actually build your first 5 protocols

Practical advice:

1. Pick your 5 most common conditions. Look at your last 100 patients. Which 5 conditions came up most?
2. Pull up your last 10 prescriptions for each. Notice what stayed the same vs what you customized.
3. Build the protocol for the common case. Don't try to cover every edge case — that's what individual adjustments are for.
4. Use it for 2 weeks. Track how often you needed to customize.
5. Refine. If 80% of the time you change the same field, that field should be in the protocol differently.

Most doctors save their first protocol in 5-10 minutes. After that, they're hooked.

Try it

Protocol-based prescribing is part of DRP-OS Clinic from the starter plan (₹1,499/month). The 4-slot dosing model, multi-language support, and structured diet/lifestyle fields all flow into protocols.

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