A feasibility study to assess the integration of a pharmacist into neurooncology clinic

Abstract

Based on these results, a clinical pharmacist should become a permanent member of the outpatient NeuroOncology clinic.

Implementation of a pharmaceutical care programme for patients receiving new molecular-targeted agents in a clinical trial unit

“…They also frequently act as a link with the dispensing pharmacist (Delaney et al 2009). They also frequently act as a link with the dispensing pharmacist (Delaney et al 2009).…”

“…Most involved the patient (26% were aimed at resolving the patient's doubts), 14% involved the team and 19% were associated with coordination tasks (Delaney et al 2009). During the study period, the authors undertook 280 interventions.…”

Integrated care in cancer: What is it, how is it used and where are the gaps? A textual narrative literature synthesis

“…38 publications were included in the review (Table ). Papers originated from Australia (Le et al., ), the UK (Gage et al., ; Letton, Cheung, & Nordin, ; Murchie, Hannaford, Wyke, Nicolson, & Campbell, ; Selwood, ; Sharpe et al., ; Walker, Hansen, et al., ; Walker, Walker, et al., ), Europe (Ben‐Arye, Schiff, Raz, Samuels, & Lavie, ; Ben‐Arye et al., ; Camps et al., ; Colombet et al., ; Coriat et al., ; Gaertner et al., ; Hanan et al., ; van Hoeve, de Munck, Otter, de Vries, & Siesling, ; Ouwens, Hermens, et al., ; Popper‐Giveon, Schiff, & Ben‐Arye, ; Popper‐Giveon, Schiff, Hatem, Samuels, & Ben‐Arye, ; Prades & Borras, ; Pugliese et al., ; Savio et al., ), North America (Bekelman et al., ; Bjegovich‐Weidman et al., ; Brazier, Cooke, & Moravan, ; Bruera et al., ; Chubak et al., ; Delaney et al., ; Douglas & Daly, ; Hofstatter, Saadati, Russell, & III Russell, ; Hui et al., ; Hydeman, ; Judge Santacroce, Asmus, Kadan‐Lottick, & Grey, ; Kligler et al., ; Marshall et al., ; Prince‐Paul, Burant, Saltzman, Teston, & Matthews, ; Tam et al., ; Temel et al., ) and South America (Rugno, Paiva, & Paiva, ).…”

“…79% (30/38) of papers had a focus on horizontal integration, improving the coordination of cancer care within the specialist or tertiary setting. Three main approaches were utilised within this group of studies: expansion of multidisciplinary care team (Delaney et al., ; Douglas & Daly, ; Judge Santacroce et al., ; Prince‐Paul et al., ; Pugliese et al., ; Savio et al., ; Sharpe et al., ; Walker, Hansen, et al., ; Walker, Walker, et al., ), enhancing the functioning of the multidisciplinary care team (Bekelman et al., ; Bjegovich‐Weidman et al., ; Coriat et al., ; Letton et al., ; Marshall et al., ; Ouwens, Hermens, et al., ; Selwood, ), and facilitating coordination between specialist care teams such as palliative care (Colombet et al., ; Gaertner et al., ; Hui et al., ; Hydeman, ; Le et al., ; Rugno et al., ; Temel et al., ), complementary medicine(Ben‐Arye et al., , ; Gage et al., ; Kligler et al., ), and other medical specialties. Organisational level integration was addressed in two studies examining the impact of colocation of care providers treating prostate cancer (Bruera et al., ; Hofstatter et al., ).…”

“…Half of the papers (19/38) were conducted in populations that had a specific cancer type including prostate (Bekelman et al., ), lung (Bjegovich‐Weidman et al., ; Chubak et al., ; Douglas & Daly, ; Le et al., ; Temel et al., ; Walker, Hansen, et al., ), breast (Chubak et al., ; van Hoeve et al., ; Rugno et al., ; Tam et al., ), colorectal (Chubak et al., ; Douglas & Daly, ; Marshall et al., ; Pugliese et al., ), gynaecological (Douglas & Daly, ; Letton et al., ; Rugno et al., ) glioma (Delaney et al., ), melanoma (Murchie et al., )and head and neck (Ouwens, Hermens, et al., ) or were age group specific (Judge Santacroce et al., ; Savio et al., ; Selwood, ). Almost all (34/38) papers addressed the diagnosis and treatment phase, ten of which were not phase‐specific (Brazier et al., ; Bruera et al., ; Camps et al., ; Gage et al., ; Hanan et al., ; Popper‐Giveon et al., , ; Sharpe et al., ; Tam et al., ; Walker, Hansen, et al., ; Walker, Walker, et al., ).…”