[Participation of pharmacy in the clinical path for cancer chemotherapy].

The clinical path is about standardizing the clinical progress of a patient and his or her medical treatment. It is the technique of charting the order and timing of intervention of the physician, nurse and all other medical staff, and performing and evaluating them. The clinical path is also applicable to chemotherapy. We created two items: A "medicine management check sheet," which is the check list used by pharmacists for each medicine or therapeutic class, and a "medication counseling and instruction sheet," which standardizes the instruction of medicine management. In adopting the clinical path, we brought these two items together, calling it "the worksheet for pharmacists." It is utilized for medication instruction. Furthermore, we made adjustments to each department in our role as Clinical Path Committee secretariat. We collected guidelines and a database about the diseases adopted to the clinical path and utilized them for evaluation of the clinical paths.