Pharmaceutical interventions to improve safety of chemotherapy-treated cancer patients: a cross-sectional study. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Pharmaceutical interventions to improve safety of chemotherapy-treated cancer patients: a cross-sectional study. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published January 2019

Pharmaceutical interventions to improve safety of chemotherapy-treated cancer patients: a cross-sectional study.

Daupin J, Perrin G, Lhermitte-Pastor C, et al. J Oncol Pharm Pract. 2019 Jan 28; [Epub ahead of print].

Prior research has shown that oncology pharmacists can improve the safety of chemotherapy administration. In this prospective study, researchers found that 129 of 1346 chemotherapy prescriptions issued in a 1-month period at a single university hospital required intervention by an oncology pharmacist. The majority of such interventions were perceived as having a significant impact on patient safety.

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