Table 3.
Emergency hospital admissions and telephone calls.
| FCL |
Non-FCL |
p-value* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 139 cycles/49 pts | 163 cycles/60 pts | ||
| Emergency hospital admissions, n (%) | 1 (1) | 16 (10) | 0.0015 |
| Emergency hospital visits, n (%) | 4 (3) | 17 (10) | 0.01 |
| Nonadherence (inpatients), n (%) | 17 (12) | 31 (19) | 0.1 |
| Nonadherence (outpatients), n (%) | 5 (4) | 23 (14) | 0.002 |
| Telephone calls, n (%) | 22 (16) | 11 (7) | 0.01 |
| Total calls | 30 | 11 | |
| Calls according to pharmacists’ instruction | 24 (80) | 5 (45) | |
| Calls before emergency admissions | 1 (100) | 6 (37) | |
| Calls before emergency visits | 4 (100) | 6 (37) |
FCL: flowchart-type leaflet; cycles: number of chemotherapy cycles; pts: number of patients.
*
Fisher’s exact test.