How to read a dosing schedule without losing the source.

A dosing schedule is easiest to read when it preserves three separate facts: where the label starts, when it permits escalation, and what it calls maintenance.

Start with the row labels, not the largest number.

“Starting dose,” “dose escalation” and “maintenance dose” are different roles in the prescribing record. A higher number appearing later in a table is not a personal instruction. It is part of the manufacturer’s labeled sequence and still requires the judgment of a licensed prescriber.

Ask whether the table came from the manufacturer.

Some labels publish a clean titration table. Others describe the sequence in prose. CareCanon marks that distinction: a reproduced table remains a table; a schedule reconstructed from prose remains visibly identified as a transcription of the label’s own rule.

Every record also carries the label set ID, publication date, mirror date and a link to the original DailyMed page. Those details are not decoration. They are how a reader can tell which document the schedule came from.

CareCanon defines each field in the prescription record glossary, including starting dose, escalation, maintenance dose and set ID.