TITLE:
Comparison of Anticancer Drug Preparation Techniques between Chemotherapy Specialist Pharmacists and Non-Chemotherapy Pharmacists Using Eye-Tracking Techniques
AUTHORS:
Yuka Miyachi, Yukina Miyagi, Saori Gocho, Chika Nakayama, Masayuki Ejiri, Masayuki Takeuchi, Masafumi Ohnishi, Taeyuki Oshima
KEYWORDS:
Eye Tracking, Medicine Inspection, Anticancer Drug, Pharmacists
JOURNAL NAME:
Pharmacology & Pharmacy,
Vol.14 No.8,
August
18,
2023
ABSTRACT: Anticancer drug preparation by pharmacists is a critical task directly related to medical incidents. This study examined the factors influencing medical errors in chemotherapy, that is, errors by specialist pharmacists (CPh) and pharmacists in other departments (NCPh), by measuring their gaze during the preparation of anticancer drugs. The eye-tracking results showed that the gazing time of NCPh was significantly longer than that of CPh for items such as “preparation of a closed-system device” and “preparation of the syringe” and all preparation times (P