Chemotherapy Prescribing

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Marie Maloney
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Chemotherapy Prescribing

We are in the process of implementing electronic prescribing of chemotherapy orders in our adult inpatient unit. Do the providers or the pharmacists at your institution enter the chemotherapy plans into the EHR? If the pharmacist enters the orders does a second pharmacist double check?
In our pediatric department the providers enter the orders and there is a double check by a second provider prior to going to pharmacy for a double verification. We would like to mimic that workflow in the adult setting but are meeting some resistance.