Environmental Outcomes of Reducing Medication Waste by Redispensing Unused Oral Anticancer Drugs.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medications are associated with substantial environmental outcomes, yet frequently end up being unused by patients. Waste-minimizing interventions, such as redispensing of quality-approved oral anticancer drugs remaining unused by patients at home, could reduce the environmental footprint of cancer treatment.

Objectives

To assess the environmental outcomes of redispensing quality-assured oral anticancer drugs and to explore how redispensing could be environmentally optimized.

Design, setting, and participants

In this quality improvement study, a cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment was performed in the outpatient pharmacy of 4 Dutch hospitals, based on a prospective multicenter trial comprising 1071 patients with a clinical diagnosis of cancer and an activ

SUBMITTER: Smale EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581632 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature