Chemotherapy Flow Sheet Eric Maurer Advisor: Ron Giles Supervisor: Phil Bolenbaugh

What is OHA? Cancer treatment center Three locations in Evansville Treat many cancer patients with chemotherapy each day

Chemotherapy Dosing Current –Dose and cycle information is stored on a 5 X 7 note card –Nurses mix drugs for each patient using the index card –A paper flow sheet is used to determine if a patient can receive the drug, and to record all dosing information –Flow sheet is stored in the patient’s chart

Current Problems Inefficient and very time consuming Too great a chance for human error No way to easily search through or cross index data on the chemotherapy dosing

Project Goals Give the nurses more time with the patients Flow sheet must be as easy to use as the paper version Eliminate the need to enter the same data more than once across the computer system Automatically record as much data as possible Store the information in a database that can quickly access patient information and allow for dose information to be easily compared

High Level Design Implementation –Microsoft Windows XP Pro –Visual Studio.NET 2003 C# –Microsoft Server 2003 SQL Server Other Requirements –Run on Windows XP –Integrate with the current Medical Manager Intergy system, through scripting –Share a common database with the Index Card System

Cost Software –OHA currently has licensees for all the software that will be needed for the project Hardware –SQL server is being used currently –Will require one new computer for the nurses workstation. Dell Optiplex desktop with 17’’ LCD monitor –Approximate cost to OHA $1500

Preliminary Schedule Current until spring semester: –Observe nurses using the flow sheets –Type all data on the flow sheet, and find possible ranges of data –Obtain and learn the programming interface for the chemotherapy infusion pumps January 12 – January 26 –Design and implement database for use by both the Index Card and Flow Sheet programs January 26 – February 2 –Design main program –Design user interface

Preliminary Schedule February 2 – March 5 –Implement project User interface Chemotherapy infusion machine interface Intergy database interface Data validation March 6 – March 15 –Spring Break Beta release party in Miami March 15 – March 29 –Test and debug software March 29 – Semester End –Train OHA nurses and other users