Abstract
International Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Sciences,2020,9,1,35-44.DOI:10.5530/ijpcs.2020.9.7Published:February 2020Type:Review ArticleAuthors:Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Faiz Abdullah. Bahadig, and Hani Alhamdan Author(s) affiliations:Yousef Ahmed Alomi*, BSc. Pharm, MSc. Clin Pharm, BCPS, BCNSP, DiBA, CDE, Critical Care Clinical Pharmacists, TPN Clinical Pharmacist, Freelancer Business Planner, Content Editor and Data Analyst, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Faiz Abdullah. Bahadig, R.Ph, Informatics Pharmacist, Pharmaceutical Care Department, King Abdul-Aziz Medical, City-WR-Jeddah, Ministry of National Guard, Saudi Arabia. Hani Alhamdan, BSc.Pharm, MSc. Pharm, MBA, Director, Pharmaceutical Care services Department at KAMC-Jeddah, Ministry of National Guard, Saudi Arabia. Abstract:Objectives: To explore the adult standardized concentration of chemotherapy agent intravenous infusion as new initiatives in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: It is a new initiative project drove by national standardized concentration of chemotherapy agent services. The projects formulated from the international business model, pharmacy project guidelines and project management institution guidelines of a new project. The initiative project is written through project management professionals and contained of several parts, including the initial phase, the planning phase, the execution phase, the monitoring and controlling phase. Results: The adult standardized concentration of chemotherapy medications intravenous infusion services with a defined vision, mission and goals. The services had various benefits including clinical and economic on patients as explored in the review. The continuous of the project assured by risk management model description. In addition, the monitoring and controlling of the services as declared. The transition to operation project though closing project stage explored in the analysis. Conclusion: The adult standardized concentration of chemotherapy agent intravenous infusion services is a new initiative part of the intravenous admixture program. The standardized concentration of chemotherapy medications will reduce medication misadventures, decrease healthcare professional workload and avoid economic burden on healthcare system; it is highly recommended to implement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Keywords:Adult, Chemotherapy, Concentration, Intravenous, Medications, Saudi Arabia, StandardizedView:PDF (236.7 KB) PDFClick here to download the PDF file. Images Adult Standardized Concentration of Chemotherapy Intravenous Infusion: New Initiative in Saudi Arabia
Highlights
The national medication safety program implemented several years back.[1]
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) stated initiatives about standardized concentration to prevent medication errors for all medications but not included chemotherapy. [5,6] Several publications had been done about the standardized concentration of medication except chemotherapy and the outcome of the standardized concentration services.[7,8,9,10,11,12]
The aim of the study is to review the standardized concentration of chemotherapy medications in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Summary
The national medication safety program implemented several years back.[1]. The program consisted of multiple elements that are counting but not limited to medication safety assessment, the clinical outcome of medications safety and economic outcomes of medications safely.[1]. The biohazard medications or chemotherapy therapy one of the high alert medications.[2] The United States of Pharmacopeia released safety handling of cytotoxic medications and the American Society of Heath system Pharmacist repeated they released the guidelines prevention of chemotherapy medication errors.[3,4] Several factors were distressing the preparation of oncology medications to commit errors that are including but not limited to the following; a few workforces of pharmacy staff, high workload load and not unified guidelines of chemotherapy preparation.[3,4] The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) stated initiatives about standardized concentration to prevent medication errors for all medications but not included chemotherapy.
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