title: [Oncology medications prescription in a cancer service: appropriateness to clinical practice guidelines].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess prescription of oncology medications in municipal public health network of Rosario for its appropriateness to clinical practice guidelines.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive pharmacoepidemiological study in adult patients in an Oncology Service between January and June 2012. Compliance requirements with clinical practice guidelines were evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  51.8% of diagnoses had at least one prescription medication that did not match recommendation by at least one of the guides considered. Prescriptions of doxorrubicine and ifosfamide did not agree with the recommendation of any reference guides. 5.4% of prescriptions weren´t considered by local guides, nor 7.7% by national on es. Regarding comparison with international guidelines: 4.2% of prescriptions weren ´t considered by the European Society for Medical Oncology guidelines, 2.3% not considered by the American Cancer Society and only 1.9% were not considered by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network ones.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prescription of oncology treatments is closer to international reference guides. One reason could be that there is still no standard definition in the management of tumor diseases by the National State.
authors.affiliation: Área de Farmacia Asistencial. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina.. vpalchik@fbioyf.unr.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Palchik
authors.affiliation: Área de Farmacia Asistencial. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina.. vpalchik@fbioyf.unr.edu.ar.
authors.forename: María Luz
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Traverso
authors.affiliation: Área de Farmacia Asistencial. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina.. vpalchik@fbioyf.unr.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Marisel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Colautti
authors.affiliation: Área de Farmacia Asistencial. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina.. vpalchik@fbioyf.unr.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Mariela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.affiliation: Área de Farmacia Asistencial. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina.. vpalchik@fbioyf.unr.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Lucía
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dolza
authors.affiliation: Área de Farmacia Asistencial. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina.. vpalchik@fbioyf.unr.edu.ar.
authors.forename: José María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Catena
authors.affiliation: Área de Farmacia Asistencial. Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Argentina.. vpalchik@fbioyf.unr.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salamano
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000592:standards* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001118:Argentina; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents