Pharmaceutical care issues in lung cancer : can community pharmacists support patients receiving systemic anticancer therapy?
| Autor: | Alexander B. Mullen, Anne Boyter, Fiona Maclean, Richard Lowrie |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Pharmaceutical Science Community Pharmacy Services Pharmacy Pharmacists Skin Diseases RS RC0254 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Epidemiology Mucositis Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Intensive care medicine Lung cancer Retrospective Studies media_common business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Cancer medicine.disease Pharmaceutical care Pharmaceutical Services 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis business Patient education |
| ISSN: | 0961-7671 |
| Popis: | Objectives Most patients receive systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) as day cases and toxicities, if they occur, are likely to appear first in primary care. Pharmaceutical care can be delivered by community pharmacists, but little is known about the epidemiology of SACT toxicities in the community and potential interventions to address these which raise the following questions: what are the typologies of SACT-associated toxicities experienced by community-based patients and what are the associated pharmaceutical care issues (PCIs)? The aim of this study was to identify toxicities and pharmaceutical care issues of patients prescribed SACT for lung cancer and understand the potential for community pharmacists to deliver aspects of cancer care including toxicity management. Methods Retrospective analysis of clinical records of patients prescribed oral and parenteral SACT in 2013–14, to describe patient characteristics; SACT toxicity; PCIs and episodes of unscheduled care. Key findings Twelve categories of toxicity and 13 categories of PCIs were identified from 50 patients. More PCIs were observed with oral SACT/oral-parenteral combinations than with parenteral regimens. The PCIs which could be managed by community pharmacists were mucositis; skin toxicity; gastrointestinal toxicity; reinforcing patient education and identification/prevention of drug interactions. Conclusions Community pharmacists are ideally placed to provide pharmaceutical care to patients with lung cancer prescribed SACT. Cancer specialists in secondary care can signpost patients to community pharmacists for early management of low-grade SACT toxicity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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