Prescribed dose and delivered dose are different fields

Prescribed dose and delivered dose are different fields

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A prescription says a number. A syringe delivers a number. The two agree less often than people assume, and a log that only records one of them cannot tell you which. Rounding, dead space, a bubble, a partial draw and a plain misread all live in the gap between them.

Keep prescribed dose as a property of the plan, not of the injection. It changes when your clinician changes it, which is rarely, and it should be visible at the top of your log as the current target. Delivered dose is a property of the event and gets entered every single time. Conflating them means that when you deviate, the deviation is invisible.

The immediate payoff is that adherence becomes measurable rather than felt. Comparing the two columns over a month tells you whether you are actually receiving the regimen you are on. Most people find they are, with the occasional low outlier, and the reassurance is worth having. Some find a systematic shortfall, and that is worth finding.

The second payoff is at consultations. 'I am prescribed 0.5 mg and my delivered doses last month ranged from 0.45 to 0.5' is a far more useful sentence than 'I am on 0.5'. It gives the clinician the actual exposure rather than the intended one. A Peptide Tracker & Calculator that holds both and shows the difference makes that sentence available without any work.

If you only ever record one number, record the delivered one. It is the one that happened.

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