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Erschienen in: Supportive Care in Cancer 12/2015

01.12.2015 | Original Article

Guideline sheets on the side effects of anticancer drugs are useful for general practitioners

verfasst von: Marie-Eve Rouge-Bugat, Donia Lassoued, Joy Bacrie, Nathalie Boussier, Jean-Pierre Delord, Stéphane Oustric, Eric Bauvin, Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre, François Bertucci, Pascale Grosclaude

Erschienen in: Supportive Care in Cancer | Ausgabe 12/2015

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Abstract

Purpose

General practitioners (GPs) are more and more involved in the treatment of cancer patients but feel not informed enough about anticancer treatments and associated side effects. Better communication with treatment centers is needed. We hypothesized that information sheets could improve communication.

Methods

This prospective, multicentric, and interventionist study aimed at implementing and assessing therapeutic sheets describing the side effects of anticancer drugs used for digestive and gynecological cancers and their recommended management. GPs’ phone interviews were done through three successive phases and two independent cohorts. The first phase (T1; 242 GPs with one patient recently treated) listed their expectations, the second (T2; 158 GPs with one patient beginning treatment) assessed the GPs’ opinion regarding the sheets, and the third (T3; responder GPs 4 months after the start of T2) assessed their usefulness in practice.

Results

In T1, 94 % of GPs declared their need of having information sheets, notably for the management of side effects. Thirty-one one-page sheets were created. In T2, 83.5 % gave a favorable opinion about sheets and 80 % envisaged their use in the case of side effect. In T3, 56 % of GPs whose patient had experienced a side effect had used successfully the sheets for its management, and 21 % of patients with side effect were hospitalized. A strong correlation existed between the use of the sheet by GPs and the hospitalization (OR 7.35 in the case of no use vs use).

Conclusion

The guideline sheets represent a simple and low-cost solution to help GPs managing drugs’ side effects and perhaps decrease the rate of unplanned hospitalizations.
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Metadaten
Titel
Guideline sheets on the side effects of anticancer drugs are useful for general practitioners
verfasst von
Marie-Eve Rouge-Bugat
Donia Lassoued
Joy Bacrie
Nathalie Boussier
Jean-Pierre Delord
Stéphane Oustric
Eric Bauvin
Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre
François Bertucci
Pascale Grosclaude
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Supportive Care in Cancer / Ausgabe 12/2015
Print ISSN: 0941-4355
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-7339
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-015-2705-x

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