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Table 4 Descriptive analysis of antineoplastic dose errors

From: Chemotherapeutic errors in hospitalised cancer patients: attributable damage and extra costs

 

Underdosage

Overdosage

  

Percentage of error1

< 10

[10-50[

[50-100]

> 100

< 10

[10-50[

[50-100]

> 100

Total

Frequency of drug prescriptions (%)

Bevacizumab

-

-

2

-

1

-

-

-

3

0.65

Bleomycin

-

-

-

-

-

3

-

-

3

3.1

Bortezomib

1

-

-

-

-

3

1

-

5

3.36

Carboplatin

4

9

1

-

5

14

2

-

35

2.66

Cetuximab

-

-

-

-

-

-

2

-

2

0.99

Cisplatin

-

-

-

-

-

2

1

3

6

5.22

Cyclophosphamide

1

2

1

-

1

2

1

-

8

6.31

Cytarabine

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

3.23

Dacarbazine

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

1

1.71

Docetaxel

-

-

-

-

-

2

-

1

3

2.69

Doxorubicin

-

-

1

-

2

-

-

1

4

8.04

Drug in clinical trial

-

-

1

-

-

1

-

-

2

0.5

Liposomal doxorubicin

-

-

-

-

-

2

-

-

2

0.31

Epirubicin

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

1

0.6

Etoposide

1

1

-

-

1

1

-

1

5

7.82

Fluorouracil

4

-

1

-

4

9

1

-

19

12.1

Gemcitabine

-

1

-

-

-

5

3

1

10

4.91

Ifosfamide

-

2

2

-

2

2

-

-

8

2.67

Irinotecan

1

-

-

-

1

1

-

1

4

2.57

Methotrexate

-

-

1

-

-

1

-

-

2

1.6

Oxaliplatin

1

2

-

-

1

7

1

1

13

2.15

Paclitaxel

1

-

-

-

-

3

-

-

4

1.63

Raltitrexed

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

0.1

Rituximab

-

2

-

-

4

-

1

-

7

8.21

Trastuzumab

-

1

1

-

-

-

-

-

2

1.78

Vinblastine

-

-

-

-

1

1

-

1

3

2.01

Vincristine

-

-

-

-

1

4

3

-

8

5.18

Vindesine

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

-

1

0.75

Vinorelbine

-

-

-

-

-

2

1

1

4

2.12

Total

14

21

12

-

25

66

18

11

167

 
  1. 1 Percentage of error = (theoretical dose - incorrect dose)/theoretical dose *100