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Cancer care has more handoffs than most conditions, hospital to home, surgery to chemotherapy, oncology back to the family doctor, and information and medications are lost at each. A standard handoff checklist plus pharmacist medication reconciliation covering oral anticancer drugs, steroids, anticoagulants and opioids at every transition would prevent avoidable adverse drug events cheaply.
Cancer care involves more transitions than most conditions, and each is a point where information and medications are lost or duplicated. Standardised handoff tools and pharmacist-led medication reconciliation reduce adverse drug events in general medicine; oncology-specific versions covering oral anticancer agents, steroids, anticoagulants, and opioids are rare. Implementing them as a required step at defined transitions is inexpensive.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.