Conference Coverage

ASCO's Chemotherapy Administration Safety Standards

How can chemotherapy safety be improved?


 

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Janet Cogswell, RN, discusses the updated 2013 Chemotherapy Administration Safety Standards put in place by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Oncology Nursing Society.

"The 2013 standards were created to reflect the fact that oral chemotherapy has unique administration problems," Cogswell said during her 2013 AVAHO Meeting presentation.

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