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The impact of a pharmacist-led oral anticancer clinic on medication adherence and laboratory monitoring

Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice, 2023
Purpose To evaluate the impact that a pharmacist-managed oral anticancer clinic has on patient adherence to oral anticancer therapy in regard to medication adherence and adherence to lab monitoring. Methods A retrospective chart review was completed for patients prescribed abiraterone, enzalutamide, or ibrutinib within the study time period.
Ayaa Megeed, Hannah Magas, Mallory Accursi, Christopher J Burant, Elizabeth Hansen   +4 more
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Oral Anticancer Agents: An Intervention to Promote Medication Adherence and Symptom Management

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2017
Symptom burden and poor adherence to oral anticancer agents remain significant clinical problems. This study examined feasibility, preliminary efficacy, and satisfaction with ADHERE, a nurse practitioner intervention that promotes symptom management and adherence among patients prescribed oral agents.
Sandra L, Spoelstra, Alla, Sikorskii, Atreyee, Majumder, Peggy S, Burhenn, Monica, Schueller, Barbara, Given   +5 more
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Cancer Care Team Education and Oral Anticancer Medication Adherence

2022
The expansion of oral chemotherapy treatment options reveals the need to improve strategies for assessment, patient education, adverse side-effect management, and ongoing monitoring of care. This quality improvement project provided the cancer care team with a focused review of the literature with an educational learning program derived from 2016 ASCO ...
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Patient-centered design in developing a mobile application for oral anticancer medications

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2019
To develop and test the usability and feasibility of a customizable mobile application (app) designed to help educate patients about their oral anticancer medications (OAMs) and regimens.Outpatient cancer center and oncology pharmacy for urban, Midwestern academic health system.Clinically-supervised educational intervention to support patients learning
Stephanie Y, Crawford, Andrew D, Boyd, Ashwin K, Nayak, Neeta K, Venepalli, Sandra, Cuellar, Scott M, Wirth, Grace I-Hsuan, Hsu   +6 more
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Natural Oral Anticancer Medication in Small Ethanol Nanosomes Coated with a Natural Alkaline Polysaccharide

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020
Oral medication is the most acceptable therapy to treat chronic diseases. Natural drugs and excipients have unique advantages, such as low cost and high safety. We first investigated modified ethanol nanosomes for tumor treatment via oral administration.
Jing Zhao, Yuan Li, Dan He, Xueyuan Hu, Kailing Li, Qiang Yang, Chunshu Fang, Cailing Zhong, Jie Yang, Qunyou Tan, Jingqing Zhang   +10 more
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Implementation and evaluation of a pharmacist‐led oral anticancer medication management clinic

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 2018
AbstractBackgroundOral anticancer medication (OAM) use is increasing in prevalence. Although OAM offers many advantages to patients, there is also a high risk of medication errors.AimThis study aimed to evaluate whether a pharmacist‐led OAM management clinic would improve patient understanding and adherence to OAMs and reduce medication errors ...
Aimee E. Byrne, Grace M. Redmayne, Thanh Lam, Jenny Tran, Daisy K. Chan   +4 more
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Defining the Role and Responsibilities of the Oral Anticancer Medication Nurse Navigator

Seminars in Oncology Nursing
The goal of this article is to define the role and responsibilities of the oral anticancer medication nurse navigator.This article combines findings from a review of scientific literature including research studies, quality improvement projects, case studies, standards, and guidelines combined with the experience and professional insights of the ...
Mary K. Anderson, Elizabeth V. Bettencourt, Kristine B. LeFebvre   +2 more
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Provider and patient burdens of obtaining oral anticancer medications.

The American journal of managed care, 2019
Oral anticancer medications (OAMs) are frequently used to treat patients with cancer. Unlike intravenous chemotherapy, OAMs are covered by prescription drug plans. We examined barriers to initiation of OAMs in 116 patients with prostate or kidney cancer (149 unique prescriptions).
Daniel M, Geynisman, Caitlin R, Meeker, Jamie L, Doyle, Elizabeth A, Handorf, Marijo, Bilusic, Elizabeth R, Plimack, Yu Ning, Wong   +6 more
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Financial impact of integrated specialty pharmacy efforts to avoid oral anticancer medication waste

Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
The growing number of oral anticancer medications represents a significant portion of pharmacy spending and can be costly for patients. Patients taking oral anticancer medications may experience frequent treatment changes following necessary safety and effectiveness monitoring, often resulting in medication waste.
Brooke, Looney, Jared, Crumb, Stephanie, White, Gabrielle, Jones, Ryan P, Moore, Leena, Choi, Autumn D, Zuckerman, Kristen, Whelchel   +7 more
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Patients’ Perception of App-based Educational and Behavioural Interventions for Enhancing Oral Anticancer Medication Adherence

Journal of Cancer Education, 2017
Well-designed smartphone apps can potentially help in enhancing adherence to oral anticancer medications (OAMs). The objective of this study was to evaluate patients' perception on inclusion of various adherence-enhancing strategies as features of an app and their interest in using such app. A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the National Cancer
Eskinder Eshetu Ali, Jo Lene Leow, Lita Chew, Kevin Yi-Lwern Yap   +3 more
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