Chemotherapy Flow Sheet

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Chemotherapy Flow Sheet

• Eric Maurer
• Advisor
• Ron Giles
• Supervisor
• Phil Bolenbaugh

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What is OHA?

• Cancer treatment center
• Three locations in Evansville
• Treat many cancer patients with chemotherapy each
  day

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Chemotherapy Dosing

• Current
• Dose and cycle information is stored on a 5 X 7
  note card
• Nurses mix drugs for each patient using the index
  card
• A paper flow sheet is used to determine if a
  patient can receive the drug, and to record all
  dosing information
• Flow sheet is stored in the patients chart

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Current Problems

• Inefficient and very time consuming
• Too great a chance for human error
• No way to easily search through or cross index
  data on the chemotherapy dosing

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Project Goals

• Give the nurses more time with the patients
• Flow sheet must be as easy to use as the paper
  version
• Eliminate the need to enter the same data more
  than once across the computer system
• Automatically record as much data as possible
• Store the information in a database that can
  quickly access patient information and allow for
  dose information to be easily compared

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High Level Design

• Implementation
• Microsoft Windows XP Pro
• Visual Studio .NET 2003
• C
• Microsoft Server 2003
• SQL Server
• Other Requirements
• Run on Windows XP
• Integrate with the current Medical Manager
  Intergy system, through scripting
• Share a common database with the Index Card System

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Cost

• Software
• OHA currently has licensees for all the software
  that will be needed for the project
• Hardware
• SQL server is being used currently
• Will require one new computer for the nurses
  workstation.
• Dell Optiplex desktop with 17 LCD monitor
• Approximate cost to OHA 1500

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Preliminary Schedule

• Current until spring semester
• Observe nurses using the flow sheets
• Type all data on the flow sheet, and find
  possible ranges of data
• Obtain and learn the programming interface for
  the chemotherapy infusion pumps
• January 12 January 26
• Design and implement database for use by both the
  Index Card and Flow Sheet programs
• January 26 February 2
• Design main program
• Design user interface

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Preliminary Schedule

• February 2 March 5
• Implement project
• User interface
• Chemotherapy infusion machine interface
• Intergy database interface
• Data validation
• March 6 March 15
• Spring Break
• Beta release party in Miami
• March 15 March 29
• Test and debug software
• March 29 Semester End
• Train OHA nurses and other users

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