Table 3.

Prescriber Actions in Response to Oral Chemotherapy Alerts by Drug and Type of Prescriber^*

Drug/Prescriber	Prescriber Action After Alert			P†
	Abort Prescription (No.)	Continue Prescription (No.)	Continuation Rate (%)
Drug generating alert				< .001
Capecitabine	2	8	80
Dasatinib	1	0	0
Erlotinib	0	2	100
Hydroxyurea	0	6	100
Mercaptopurine	0	1	100
Methotrexate	0	1	100
Temozolomide	14	360	96
Type of prescriber				.07
Physician	10	139	93
Nonphysician	7	239	97

^*Total of 395 alerts.

^†χ² test.