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Query to Cancer Patient Education Network About Software for Medication Sheets Name and Hospital Name of Software Program Medline Plus Comments Nita Pyle, MSN, RN Associate Director U. T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center 1515 Holcombe Boulevard Unit 21 Houston, Texas 77030 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 713-792-7128 Fax: 713-794-5379 Own medication sheets LexiComp We, too, have our own medication sheets; however, the pharmacists tend to use LexiComp Online because it is tied to our formulary. I think it has pretty good information about side effects,etc. for patients. Diane D. Cole, M.P.H. University of Virginia Cancer Center P. O. Box 800334 Charlottesville, VA 22908 [email protected] 434-243-6015 (phone) 800-223-9173 (toll-free) 434-982-0918 (fax) Micromedex We use the Micromedex program for all of our teaching sheets. We have had an excellent experience with these. The patient's name and special instructions can be put on each sheet before it is printed and given to the patient. We are very pleased with the program. Rachel Fuss, MPH, Director Samaritan Albany Cancer Resource Center 400 Hickory St. NW Albany, OR 97321 T: 541-812-5880 C: 541-971-0875 F: 541-812-5889 E: [email protected] ? I am also interested in such information. I am currently working with the pharmacy dept. here at Samaritan Health Services to potentially develop some sort of real-time drug information service. This would allow people to call or email questions regarding their medications and receive evidence-based feedback in a short period of time. Do you have any such resource for your patients? If so, I’d love to hear more about it, as well as other methods that you have found effective and efficient (funding wise) to educate patients about medications/interactions/side-effects etc Ann Breen, RN, MN, APRN, OCN Patient and Family Education Coordinator Transition Coordinator Seattle Cancer Care Alliance 206-288-1033/ 206-288-2125 We have the medline plus library of medicine website listed on all of our chemotherapy sheets to address some of your issues. Patrice Hough, MSN, RN Manager, Praxair Cancer Center Danbury Hospital, 24 Hospital Avenue, Danbury, CT 06810 V: (203) 739-7893 | F: (203) 739-8454 | [email protected] http://www.danburyhospital.org Micromedex Chemocare.com Lynn Marzinski RN, MSN, AOCN, Coordinator Brandmeyer Patient Resource Center University of Kansas Cancer Center Office - 913-588-0130 Pager - 913-917-6680 Fax - 913-588-4720 Chemocare.com Alicia Ferrer Coordinator, Huntsman Online Patient Education Huntsman Cancer Institute University of Utah Joanne Finley, RN, MS Patient Education Coordinator Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Room 4261, Weinberg Building 401 N. Broadway Baltimore, MD 21231 410-502-1591 We use Micromedex - Care Notes system. Pros - easily available through our internal intranet / allows for English and Spanish. Cons - don't think the format is that user friendly. I just recently came across the web site by Scott Hamilton (chemocare.com) that has very detailed information sheets on chemotherapy agents. I am fro the University of Kansas Cancer Center in Kansas City, KS. In our large outpatient Cancer Center, we use a variety of products but I am trying to get our nurses to uniformly use Scott Hamilton's Chemocare.com site for printing drug information. Patients have said it is easy to read, and nurses find it clearer than information found on other websites such as ACS or Micromedix. I, too, have worked with systems that wrote their own drug sheets but it became a constant chore to update them, and this is much easier. www.hopeguide.org I'm the coordinator for online patient education at Huntsman Cancer Institute. I don't know of a software program, but we offer the Hope Guide that includes information sheets about individual medications and combination chemotherapy regimens. Visit www.hopeguide.org and select the tab at the top right that says "Drug Info." The drug information is reviewed by pharmacists at the University of Utah Medical Center and is provided by the authors of Cancer Chemotherapy Manual (http://www.factsandcomparisons.com/Products/Product.aspx?id=1036). The Hope Guide is a public website, so anyone can access and print from it. I hope this is helpful! Micromedex Lexi-pals Medline Plus MD Consult We primarily use Micromedex from Thomson. The staff have not been totally happy with it, however. I even tried at one point to work with the company to revamp them. It was too time consuming, however. Our main complaint was their length. They repeat the handling, precautions with pregnancy, etc on each one which adds to the length; whereas the important information such as side effects is last. This would not be a problem for most drugs, but for chemotherapy where side effects are expected we would like to see that section moved up. We also use Lexi-pals. The staff seem to like it a little better. They are shorter and in question format. THey also are available in many more languages. As a third and fourth resort we have used Medline Plus and MD Consult. Carolyn Weaver RN, MSN, AOCN Clinical Nurse Specialist Patient Education Coordinator Fox Chase Cancer Center 333 Cottman Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19111 ph-215-728-3004 fax-215-214-4052 [email protected] Deb Price, RN, MSN NCI/OCE/OCCM/ICRDB 6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 300A Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 594-9177 http://www.cancer.gov <http://www.cancer.gov Own medication sheets While our system which was designed after yours (CINJ) was just launched in July, I am hoping that our enthusiastic pharmacists do keep on top of the additions. I feel optimistic about that possibility as of now, but I'll let you know how it works out. CancerHelp Wik1 We have successfully launched a program called CancerHelp and currently have six stations that provide patient drug information, etc. It's a great program backed by NCI, etc. http://www.cancerhelp.org/index.html MedlinePlus We include links to the MedlinePlus drug monographs <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html> (authored by AHFS <http://www.ahfsdruginformation.com/> ) in our Drug Information Summaries <http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/druginfo/alphalist> and in the not-too-distant future we plan to have a companion collection of Drug Combination Summaries. NLM's DailyMed But have you considered using NLM's DailyMed <http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm> database of package inserts? There are some other "partner" sites we like, such as CancerBackUp's chemo regimen <http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Treatments/Chemotherapy/Combinationregim en> info and Scott Hamilton's ChemoCare.org <http://www.chemocare.com/bio/> .
