Key messages
- The Chemotherapy Audit Toolkit is designed for health services to implement best practice management of chemotherapy prescribing variations and to provide auditing methods that are targeted and validated.
- The toolkit consists of two elements: a best practice framework for the evidence to patient process and a suite of tools for auditing variations in chemotherapy prescribing.
- The tools have been piloted in Victorian hospitals.
The Victorian Therapeutics Advisory (opens in a new window) (VicTAG) commissioned the creation of a Chemotherapy Audit Toolkit for use by health services in Victoria, supported by the Victorian Government.
To implement a tool:
- start with the Process and Scope guide, and use the process within to determine scope and exclusions (in conjunction with the Exclusion Guide
- use the instructions and tool that relate to your electronic prescribing system (or paper-based if that is relevant).
The toolkit consists of three elements:
- a quality framework and explanatory notes
- documents covering the process for implementing a tool
- a suite of tools covering various Electronic Prescribing Systems and paper-based prescribing.
These documents are publicly available for no charge on the VicTAG (opens in a new window).
Questions and comments can be provided to cancerplanning@dhhs.vic.gov.au.
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