The clinical groupings your drugs belong to — Antibiotic, Analgesic, Antihypertensive, and so on. A drug's therapeutic class is set on its Pharmacy tab, and it's used to organise and report on your formulary.
Therapeutic class vs Item Category
These are two different things and a drug has both:
- Therapeutic class — clinical grouping (this page). No accounting behaviour.
- Item Category — accounting grouping that sets the default Income, Cost-of-Goods and Inventory-asset accounts a drug posts to.
Keep them separate: an Antibiotic (therapeutic class) might post to a Pharmacy Stock item category.
Before you start
- You need the Inventory Master permission.
Steps
- Open Pharmacy → Therapeutic Classes.
- Click New class, enter a Name (required), an optional short Code (e.g. an ATC code) and Description, then Save.
- Click any row to edit it. Use the trash icon to remove one.
They fill in automatically
You usually don't need to create these by hand. When you import drugs from the AI Drug Catalog, each drug's suggested class is created here automatically if it doesn't exist yet. This page is where you tidy, rename, or merge them afterwards.
Common problems
- "…cannot be deleted." → The class is assigned to one or more items. Reassign those items to another class first (on each item's Pharmacy tab), then delete.
- Duplicate-looking classes (e.g. Antibiotic and Antibiotics). → These come from slightly different AI suggestions. Rename one to match, move any items over, and delete the spare.