New Standards/Guidelines to Dispense Oral Medications
- Katrina Williams
- December 13, 2019
- News
Luis E. Raez, MD, FACP, FCCP, President of Florida Society of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO), Chief Scientific Officer & Medical Director of Memorial Cancer Institute, Memorial Health Care System and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University participated in the Expert Panel created by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the National Community Oncology Dispensing Association (NCODA) to write new standards/guidelines to dispense oral medications.
The panel’s recommendations are published this week in the Journal Of Clinical Oncology. https://ascopubs.org/doi/pdfdirect/10.1200/JCO.19.02297
The panel advocated to implement high quality standards for local specialty pharmacies (called MIDs) instead of the using large providers that are sometimes located in other states that dispense mail order and only monitor the patients by phone or email. The panel also recommended education, adherence, safety, collection of data, and documentation.