Interventions to improve oral chemotherapy safety and quality: A systematic and grey literature review.

Authors

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Jessica A. Zerillo

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Jessica A. Zerillo, Benjamin Adam Goldenberg, Ritesh R. Kotecha, Alok Tewari, Monika K. Krzyzanowska, Joseph O. Jacobson

Organizations

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Research Funding

Other

Background: With the growing use of oral chemotherapy, there is an urgent need to develop safe and effective systems to administer and manage these agents. A comprehensive synthesis of literature on oral chemotherapy care delivery programs to which clinicians can look for best practices is lacking. Methods: We performed a systematic review of PubMed, EMBASE and CINAHL from 1/1995- 5/2016 and the grey literature to identify publications describing oral chemotherapy care delivery programs. Our population of interest was cancer patients of all ages prescribed cytotoxic or targeted anti-cancer oral agents. Interventions could address any part of the oral chemotherapy delivery process from prescribing through disposal but had to report outcomes (adherence and/or safety or toxicity) in relation to a control group. Results: From 7,984 abstracts in the peer-reviewed and 9 from the grey literature, 16 studies met inclusion criteria (7 of these randomized) with 3,612 patients represented. Interventions focused on prescribing (n = 1), preparation/dispensing (n = 2), education (n = 11), administration (n = 5), monitoring (n = 14), and storage/disposal (n = 1). Of the 10 articles with adherence as an outcome, four different measurement methods were used. Many articles lacked formal statistical testing. In the 6 studies with statistically significant improvement in outcomes, 3 utilized nursing phone calls to patients within the first few days of treatment initiation, which resulted in less toxicity (n = 2) or better adherence (n = 1). None of the four studies that evaluated eHealth strategies to increase patient to care team contact demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in outcomes. Conclusions: Limitations in study design impair our ability to draw definitive conclusions on best practices for oral chemotherapy care delivery. A framework for conducting research in this area that defines the processes of oral chemotherapy delivery and standardizes outcomes of success is needed to address this gap. Existing studies suggest that interventions focusing on education and remote phone-based monitoring of patients at therapy initiation may decrease toxicity, and possibly improve adherence.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2017 ASCO Quality Care Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A: Cost, Value, and Policy in Quality; Practice of Quality

Track

Cost, Value, and Policy in Quality,Practice of Quality

Sub Track

Learning from Projects Done in a Health System

Citation

J Clin Oncol 35, 2017 (suppl 8S; abstract 97)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2017.35.8_suppl.97

Abstract #

97

Poster Bd #

D14

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