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Evaluation of Patients' Satisfaction With the Dispensation of Their Oral Anticancer Treatment in Community Pharmacy

NCT03275675 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 104

Last updated 2022-06-06

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Summary

The pharmacist, as a specialist of medications, occupies a strategic position: he participates in a global care of their patients. Dispensation is the pharmaceutical act which associates with the dispensing of medications "the pharmaceutical analysis of the medical prescription if it exists, the possible preparation of the doses to be administered and the provisions of the information and advices necessary for the proper use of medications". The pharmacist ensures that the quality and safety of the dispensation is guaranteed at all times by limiting as far as possible the risks associated with an error in delivery, prescription, drug interactions or undetected contraindications, inadequate dosages or non-compliance with treatment. The longer the patient feels satisfied with the stage of delivery of his treatment, the better his adherence to treatment is, and the less he will encounter poor compliance. Oncology has particularly benefited in recent years from the introduction of numerous drugs with the aim of extending the duration of response in a growing number of indications. Traditionally in oncology, chemotherapy treatments are administered intravenously by trained personnel and rarely managed by the patient at home. Recently, there has been a growing choice of oral formulations, whether for conventional hormonal, anticancer therapies or targeted therapies. These specialties are now widely available in community pharmacies. Oral administration puts the patient at the center of his therapeutic management. He must take his medication alone. Adherence and compliance are therefore particularly important here for an optimal risk-benefit ratio. This study project is designed to evaluate the satisfaction of patients undergoing oral chemotherapy treated for a cancer pathology and whose treatment is provided by their community pharmacies. It also needs to provide information about the reasons for their poor adherence to treatment (personal factors, factors attributable to treatment, factors attributable to the care system). Patients will be recruited and interviewed by contacting several departments of the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital (CHU de Clermont-Ferrand), who are used to caring for patients with cancerous diseases (hematology, urology, respiratory, gastro-enterology). The data collected in this study may be used for subsequent studies evaluating new management strategies or therapeutic education to improve adherence to patient treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Oral anticancer medications

All the oral medications for cancer treatment (hormonal, cytotoxic and targeted therapies)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David BALAYSSAC, PhD, PharmD · CHU de Clermont-Ferrand

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-06-20
Primary Completion
2019-04-11
Completion
2019-04-11

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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