QRコードを利用したがん化学療法における情報伝達手法の構築

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In cancer chemotherapy, much more information regarding patients' background and treatment regimens is required compared with other pharmacotherapies. Such information is important for patients to assure effective and safe chemotherapy treatment and avoid further serious adverse events and mortality. When prescriptions of chemotherapy for outpatient are handled in a community pharmacy, full information should be transferred from the hospital because an outpatient usually receives oral anticancer agents in a pharmacy and injections in a hospital. For such patient, information sharing among the hospital and the pharmacy is especially important, so we developed a new tool for information sharing using the quick response (QR) cord that is printed on a prescription. As an example, we suppose a patient who receives S-1+CDDP chemotherapy for stomach cancer, and the processes to convert the patients' information about regimens, laboratory evidence and contents of injections into the QR cords were compiled and verified. The developed tool using QR cords has the advantage that it can transfer patients' information easily and precisely, and would be useful for information sharing and consequently contribute to a good partnership between hospital pharmacy and community pharmacy.