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Prescribing Issues Related to Injectable Chemotherapy Medications

Country of Practice
USA 57%
International 22%
Do you prescribe and/or dispense chemotherapy medications?
No42%
Yes58%
1. How are chemotherapy medication orders generally written in your institution?
Other14%
Preprinted order sheet18%
Protocol specific chemotherapy order sheet22%
Regular medication order sheet46%
2. Do you write /accept chemotherapy medication orders prescribed with acronyms and/or abbreviations to describe the regimen? (e.g., an order for MBC rather than the components methotrexate, bleomycin and cisplatin)
No80%
Yes26%
3. In your institution, are prescriptions for chemotherapy medications prescribed by physicians other than oncologists?
No53%
Yes54%
4. If your answer to the above question was YES, please indicate what other physicians prescribe chemotherapy medications.
Dermatology 12%
Endocrinology 7%
Internal Medicine 21%
Pediatrics 12%
Gynecology 22%
Urology 17%
Nephrology 8%
Gastroenterolgy 13%
Other 12%
5. Do you give and/or accept verbal orders for chemotherapy medications?
No78%
Yes29%