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ArticleSAGE open medicine2018

A retrospective review of treatment patterns of antiemetic agents for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

Abdulrahman Alamri, Yousef A Alawlah, Yanru Qiao, Junling Wang

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Article in SAGE open medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Abdulrahman AlamriPGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Yousef A AlawlahDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Yanru QiaoDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, College of Pharmacy, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
Junling WangDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, College of Pharmacy, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3929-6227
University of Tennessee Health Science Center · USKing Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences · SASt. Luke's Hospital · US

Funding

Resolving Racial/Ethnic Disparities Associated with Star Ratings among the ADRD PopulationR01AG049696 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI WANG, JUNLING NONE · 2015 to 2022
$2.9M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG049696
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo evaluate the treatment pattern of antiemetic agents used for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia.

methodsOver a period of 7 weeks, all new chemotherapy order sheets were collected and evaluated for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting management. We compared each antiemetic regimen used for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting prophylaxis with three international antiemetic guidelines by the following organizations: the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network for the clinician.

resultsA total of 152 cancer patients were included in the study, for whom 289 chemotherapy physician orders included antiemetic regimens. Approximately 17.3% of the chemotherapy protocols had total minimal emetogenicity risk, 22.5% had low risk, 37.02% had moderate risk, and 23.18% had high risk. For acute emesis, 27.57% of the antiemetic regimens followed at least one of the three reference guidelines. For delayed emesis, only 20.16% of the antiemetic regimens adhered to at least one of the three reference guidelines.

conclusionAdherence to treatment recommendations and antiemetics prescribing for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting was suboptimal at this hospital. However, institutional antiemetic guidelines and oncology pharmacists could play an important role in better assessment and management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

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antiemeticsChemotherapynauseaoncology pharmacistsvomiting

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PMID29881601
PMCPMC5987886
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