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Creation of a chemotherapy-induced nausea/vomiting dashboard to improve outcomes for pediatric cancer patients

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Purpose Two of the most common acute side effects of chemotherapy are nausea and vomiting. Nausea and vomiting impact quality of life, nutritional status, and ability to tolerate further chemotherapy.… Click to show full abstract

Purpose Two of the most common acute side effects of chemotherapy are nausea and vomiting. Nausea and vomiting impact quality of life, nutritional status, and ability to tolerate further chemotherapy. Parents of pediatric oncology patients rank nausea as one of the most bothersome treatment-related symptoms. Methods Utilizing Quality Improvement methodology, we developed a dashboard interface to facilitate extraction of data from the electronic medical record (EMR), which is presented via a visual display that summarizes the type of chemotherapy and antiemetic medications, use of as needed medications, and number of episodes of emesis. Results This dashboard interface allows for rapid and efficient identification of patients whose antiemetic regimen is mismatched for the emetogenicity of ordered chemotherapy, thus providing a timely opportunity to modify the antiemetic regimen based on published guidelines before administration of chemotherapy drugs. It also allows measurement of the effectiveness of the antiemetic regimen in terms of the number of break through emesis and the need for as needed medications. Conclusions A novel CINV dashboard was created, which visually conveys complex information about antiemetics, chemotherapy emetogenicity, as needed medications, and breakthrough vomiting for inpatient pediatric oncology patients.

Keywords: chemotherapy; needed medications; cancer; oncology; dashboard; nausea vomiting

Journal Title: Supportive Care in Cancer
Year Published: 2020

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