2004 年 30 巻 10 号 p. 656-665
This report describes how good medication guidance may be provided to patients with blood cancer and discusses the role of the pharmacist in raising the satisfaction of patients and family members with treatment. Chemotherapy for blood cancer causes a variety of severe adverse reactions, giving patients and their families a feeling of anxiety towards it. It is therefore necessary for pharmacists to provide medication guidance in order to reduce anxiety towards drugs during long-term chemotherapy.
In the present study, we examined questions regarding chemotherapy from patients and their families for 32 cases in the past 3 years. The 485 questions asked were classified according to subject as follows : 1) Adverse reactions-40%, 2) Chemotherapy protocol-12%, 3) Blood transfusions-7%, 4) Effects of chemotherapy-6%, 5) Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) -6%, 6) Method of use-4%, 7) Drugs preventing opportunistic infections-4%, 8) Administration method-3%, 9) Chemotherapy in outpatient ward-3 %, 10) High-dose chemotherapy-3 %, 11) Discharge and short stay at home-1%, 12) Drop-out-1 %, 13) Drawing blood-1 %, 14) Color of chemotherapy agents for injection-1%, and 15) Differences between treatment strategies at other hospitals-1%.
