Oral Chemotherapy and Quality of Care

Community and Hospital Experiences for Patients Treated by Oral Chemotherapy at the University Hospital of Caen: Analysis of the Process and Its Dysfunctions

PARCOURS is a non-interventional research study evaluating dysfunctions in the continuous city-hospital journey of a patients cohort treated by oral chemotherapy (60 patients followed for 3 months).

References used are the National Cancer Institute recommendations for the oral chemotherapy treated outpatients.

Parameters found are : information exchanged, ambulatory and hospital monitoring in case of adverse event and adherence to treatment. The study includes also a medico-economic evaluation (hospitalization and transport spending in case of dysfunction in the patient's journey). Deviations will be analyzed.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient over 18 years old
• Suffering from cancer (hematological malignancies, digestive tumors, thoracic tumors or cutaneous tumors)
• With an oral anticancer chemotherapy initial prescription written by an oncologist or hematologist from the University Hospital of Caen, whatever the place of the drug dispensing (Community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy )

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient treated by oral anticancer chemotherapy for another pathology