Securing and Optimizing the Patient's Drug Therapy With Cancer: Clinical Pharmacy and Articulation With the City

The path of a patient depends largely on his health care network, that is to say of the interrelationships between health professionals who will be involved throughout his career. At the hospital, the transition points in the care process is a vulnerable time for the patient regarding the continuity of his medication. These transition points are the intake, the transfer and the outlet. In town, our health system must be able to build on the inter-city hospital, warranty essential guarantee of the continuity of care. However, there is often a breakdown in this relationship with more or less serious consequences ranging from simple dissatisfaction of the patient, to the realization of duplicate examinations or the use unjustified emergency and re-hospitalization. Medication errors can occur, resulting from incomplete information or poorly communicated in this city hospital interface.

The city hospital dysfunctions are mainly organizational, hospital being rather specialized therapeutic approach centered on pathology and medicine city instead focuses on a patient's overall approach.

The involvement of the pharmacist in the hospital, as the city is an interesting axis to develop. In town, the pharmaceutical nomadism, including in major cities remains low, patients generally have a dedicated pharmacies for the treatment of their serious or chronic pathologies. The development of the pharmaceutical folder today allows the pharmacies to access the history and the entire therapy of patients prescribed to town by different specialists and general practitioners, on the last 4 months. Its recent availability within our hospital Group allows us to consider its use to fully optimize the patient's drug monitoring.