The development of the “medication therapy path-sheet” for outpatient cancer chemotherapy based on portfolio

Abstract

This study aims to find useful methods of medication therapy management (MTM) of outpatient chemotherapy within Saga region. In this study, the ‘Portfolio’ was developed from the data of questionnaire survey among 26 hospital pharmacists and 69 community pharmacists. ‘Portfolio’ indicated the difference from the hospital pharmacist and community pharmacist on three failure factors of MTM；‘knowledge of pharmacist’, ‘man power’, and ‘information of patient’. Five of MTM duties need ‘man power’ and ‘information of patient’ among the hospital pharmacists. By contrast, among community pharmacists, six of MTM duties needed ‘information of patient’.

Based on the above, we made a ‘medication therapy path-sheet’ of regional pharmacist for outpatient cancer chemotherapy. This sheet can be used for monitoring side effects, dosage of medicine and drug interaction to pharmacist, which may be used as support for the seamless MTM.