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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. Current Dose and cycle information is stored on a 5 X 7 note card
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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
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 Chemotherapy Dosing
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