Oral chemotherapy safety practices at US cancer centres: questionnaire survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterise current safety practices for the use of oral chemotherapy.

Design

Written questionnaire survey of pharmacy directors of cancer centres.

Setting

Comprehensive cancer centres in the United States.

Results

Respondents from 42 (78%) of 54 eligible centres completed the survey, after consulting with 89 colleagues. Clinicians at 29 centres used handwritten prescriptions, two used preprinted paper prescriptions, and six used electronic systems for most oral chemotherapy prescribing. For six commonly used oral chemotherapies, on average 10 centres required a diagnosis on the prescription, 11 required the protocol number, four required the cycle number, nine required double checking by a second clinician, 14 required a calculation of body surfa

SUBMITTER: Weingart SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1804126 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature